Highlights
Acutely observant Prior
Acutely observant Prior experience and knowledge of production.
Paul Cezanne - a workaholic and a huge influence on Matisse and Picasso - adapted Impressionism into a means of slow
acutely observant painting of familiar scenery, using grid - like structures in an attempt to pursue French Classical painting traditions from outdoors.
In
her acutely observant and compassionate fourth novel, Straight casts Southern California as a microcosm of injustice in an involving, often sad, ultimately affirming tale about a young illegal Mexican immigrant, her gruff but loyal white husband, and their teenage daughter, who attempts to bridge the divide between conflicting legacies.
Brooding,
acutely observant, compassionate, suspicious, wistful, and wryly funny, Joy is an entrancing and sympathetic narrator through which van den Berg can channel her abiding fascination with what is submerged, hidden, lurking, lost.
Not exact matches
In writing the book I have constantly encountered four difficulties, and since the author has been
acutely aware of them they will probably be visible to the
observant reader — oversimplification, inadequate exposition, the chronological fallacy, and modernization.