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Notes from an Exhibition by: Patrick Gale List Price: £7.99 Vegetarian Books Price: £3.86 You Save: £4.13 (52%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback EAN: 9780007254668 ISBN: 0007254660 Label: HarperPerennial Manufacturer: HarperPerennial Number Of Pages: 374 Publication Date: January 07, 2008 Publisher: HarperPerennial Studio: HarperPerennial Sales Rank: 247 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - A fantastic read! A fantastic read! I've recommended it everyone I know, and have now starting reading the rest of Patrick Gale's books. Rough Music is also excellent. Rating: - Great once I had got into itPatrick Gale's book Notes from an exhibition centres around the life of renowned artist Rachel Kelly who suffers from Bipolar Disorder. Gale explores the effects that mental illness has on a family as a whole. The book is heavily characterised and the reader gradually discovers the consequences that Kelly's illness has had for each of her children and also her devoted husband Anthony. Gale is particularly clever in the way he opens each chapter with an exhibition note about a piece of Kelly's work. You gradually build up a picture of the kind of art that she created and the images described become very vivid and real. The book does jump back and forth in time which I usually find quite irritating but it was really well done and ... Read More: Rating: - A good read and will read some of his othersI thoroughly enjoyed this book! A good read. Subject matter was interesting and the resulting family interactions and relationships were skillfully woven. The descriptions of Cornwall were superb and knowing the area well I was able to be vividly transported back there. A good meaty holiday read. Rating: - Shattered LivesFirst of Patrick Gale's novels that I've read and found it a very 'gentle' read, even though the subject matter was anything but gentle. A story of family life and family deaths and, at the centre, Rachel - the mother, forever wrestling with her own demons, for as well as being a gifted artist, she was bipolar. We learn of the effect this had on her husband's life, as well as the lives of her three children as they grew up. Time has moved on, the children are all adults and Rachel has died. Following her death, an exhibition of her pictures has been mounted, and the notes beside each work are used to commence each chapter. I liked the way the different stories from this family's life were related by each of its members, giving us a rounded ... Read More: Rating:  - Multiple viewpoints don't add up to a novelWhat started out as a fairly enjoyable, if rambling, novel ended up as an excess of pointless multiple views that had me keen to finish and get it over with. I rarely give up on a novel, especially one that begins with such promise, but it was a hard slog to an end that had neither resolution nor satisfaction. Part of the problem is due to the multiple viewpoints, a device deliberately chosen, and which sometimes works. It fails so dismally here because it destroys all suspense, leaving the reader to wade through page after page of pointless detail, knowing all the while where it's headed. Had this story been told in a more linear fashion - you know, that old chestnut of beginning, middle and end (sorry for being such a traditionalist) ... Read More: |
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