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  title info:
    title: All the colour in the world
    sub title: a novel
  title info:
    title: All the color in the world
  name:
    name part: Richardson, C. S.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: novel
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: onc
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 195 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
  abstract: A beautifully transporting novel capturing the romantic sweep of the twentieth century, from Toronto in the '20s and '30s through the killing fields of World War II, to 1960s Rome and Florence. Born in 1916, Henry, thin-as-sticks and nearsighted, is an obsessive doodler who shamelessly copies illustrations from his Boys Own magazines. Left in the care of a nurturing, no-nonsense, Shakespeare-quoting, cardsharp grandmother, Henry receives as a gift a pristine set of Faber-Castell coloring pencils (and a pocket knife for the sharpening). He immediately commits each color to memory, cadmium yellow, light ultramarine, burst ochre, deep scarlet red, and a passion for color, art, and stories and techniques of the great artists is lit. It will sustain him, and obsess him, on his life's journey through the joys and sorrows of the twentieth century, from a boyhood spent dreaming of adventure, to the hothouse world of artistic academia, a first love cut short by tragedy, the brutality and lingering wounds of World War II and, in the final chapters of life, the grace of unexpected love. Projected against an efflorescent backdrop of iconic art masterpieces, from the richly hued oils of the European masters to the technicolor splendor of The Wizard of Oz, All the Colour in the World is Henry's story, part miscellany, part memory palace, exquisitely precise with the emotional sweep of a great modern romance.
  note: CS Richardson.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-cn---
  subject:
    topic: Art
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Art
    topic: History
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    geographic: Canada
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
    genre: Fiction
  classification: PR9199.4.R5237 A75 2023
  classification: 813/.6
  identifier: 9781039003514
  identifier: 1039003516
  identifier: 9781039003521
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 220504
    record change date: 20240515162440.8
    record identifier: in00004760563
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng