Manual of Painting and Calligraphy - A Novel (Paperback, New edition)


By the author of Baltasar and Blimunda. The last years of Salazar's dictatorship provide a backdrop for this novel. The story is told by H, a second-rate artist commissioned by a wealthy client to paint a family portrait. As he works, he reflects on his struggles to survive in a bourgeois world.

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By the author of Baltasar and Blimunda. The last years of Salazar's dictatorship provide a backdrop for this novel. The story is told by H, a second-rate artist commissioned by a wealthy client to paint a family portrait. As he works, he reflects on his struggles to survive in a bourgeois world.

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Imprint

Carcanet Press Ltd

Country of origin

United Kingdom

Series

From the Portuguese S.

Release date

September 1995

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Dimensions

200 x 133mm (L x W)

Format

Paperback - B-format

Pages

240

Edition

New edition

ISBN-13

978-1-85754-203-5

Barcode

9781857542035

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LSN

1-85754-203-7



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