Título: Painting the Light: A Novel
Autor: Sally Cabot Gunning
Sinopse: Product Description From the critically acclaimed author of Monticello and The Widow's War comes a vividly rendered historical novel of love, loss, and reinvention, set on Martha's Vineyard at the turn of the nineteenth century.Martha's Vineyard, 1898. In her first life, Ida Russell had been a painter. Five years ago, she had confidently walked the halls of Boston’s renowned Museum School, enrolling in art courses that were once deemed ''unthinkable'' for women to take, and showing a budding talent for watercolors.But no more. Ida Russell is now Ida Pease, resident of a seaside farm on Vineyard Haven, and wife to Ezra, a once-charming man who has become an inattentive and altogether unreliable husband. Ezra runs a salvage company in town with his business partner Mose Barstow, but he much prefers their nightly card games at the local pub to his work in their Boston office, not to mention filling haystacks and tending sheep on the farm at home -- duties that have fallen to Ida and their part-time farmhand Lem. Ida, meanwhile, has left her love for painting behind.It comes as no surprise to Ida when Ezra is hours late for a Thanksgiving dinner, only to leave abruptly for another supposedly urgent business trip to Boston. But then something truly unthinkable happens: a storm strikes, and the Portland sinks. Ezra and Mose are presumed dead.In the wake of this shocking tragedy, Ida must settle the affairs of Ezra’s estate, a task that brings her to a familiar face from her past -- Henry Barstow, Mose's brother and executor. As she joins Henry in sifting through the remnants of her husband's life and work, Ida must learn to separate truth from lies and what matters from what doesn't.Painting the Light is an arresting portrait of a woman, and a considered meditation on loss and love. About the Author Sally Cabot Gunning lives with her husband in Brewster on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, where her roots go back over three centuries. She came to writing at a young age, driven to it in desperation one rainy day when she ran out of books. Today Gunning focuses on digging out the back story to the history that we thought we knew but didnt, and giving it a human face. She is the author of multiple historical novels set in New England during the tempestuous years that led up to the American Revolution.
Contexto da obra
Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “Painting the Light: A Novel”, de Sally Cabot Gunning, publicado pela editora HarperCollins B and Blackstone Publishing, em 2021 e com 1 páginas, integra a categoria Livros em Inglês. Por isso, o interesse da obra tende a se ampliar quando o leitor considera também a relação com a língua em que ela circula.
Editora: HarperCollins B and Blackstone Publishing
Páginas: 1
Ano: 2021-06-01
Edição: Unabridged
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 1665096500
ISBN13: 9781665096508
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora HarperCollins B and Blackstone Publishing apresentam uma variedade de narrativas que transitam entre histórias pessoais intensas e reflexões sociais profundas. O catálogo traz desde relatos de superação e conexões humanas até thrillers militares e investigações criminais, com um ritmo que ora prioriza a tensão e o suspense, ora aposta em um tom mais intimista e emocional. As sinopses sugerem uma atenção especial a personagens complexos, sejam eles figuras históricas, protagonistas em crises pessoais ou agentes em missões de alto risco. Há obras que exploram temas contemporâneos como saúde mental, desigualdade e identidade, ao lado de narrativas que resgatam momentos históricos e culturais, oferecendo ao leitor uma experiência tanto narrativa quanto informativa.
