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After celebrated author Jasper Gwyn suddenly and publicly announces that he will never write another book, he embarks on a strange new career path as a "copyist," holding thirty-day sittings in a meticulously appointed room and producing, at the end, brief but profoundly rich portraits in prose. The surprising, beautiful, and even frightening results are received with rapture by their subjects--among them Gwyn's devoted assistant, Rebecca; a beautiful fabric importer; a landscape painter; Gwyn's own literary agent; two wealthy newlyweds; a tailor to the Queen; and a very dangerous nineteen-year-old. Then Gwyn disappears, leaving behind only a short note to his assistant--and the portraits. As Rebecca studies his words, she realizes that the mystery is larger than the simple fact of Gwyn's whereabouts, and she begins to unravel a lifetime's worth of clues left by a man who saw so much but said so little, a man whose solitude masked a heart as hungry as hers.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Mr. Gwyn
• Author: Alessandro Baricco
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 258
• EAN: 9781938073960
• ISBN: 1938073967
• ID: 02526682
• Publisher: McSweeney's Publishing
• Weight: 430 g
• Dimensions: 211 × 142 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 08. July 2014

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