Sentences with phrase «brilliant young collector»

Darwin had known from Wallace's enthusiastic letters that he was getting close to working out natural selection, but until seeing Wallace's essay he had underestimated the speed at which the brilliant young collector was working.

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Michael — a.k.a. «Butcher» — Boone is an ex — «really famous» painter: opinionated, furious, brilliant, and now reduced to living in the remote country house of his biggest collector and acting as caretaker for his younger brother, Hugh, a damaged man of imposing physicality and childlike emotional volatility.
From the book jacket: Michael — a.k.a. «Butcher» — Boone is an ex — «really famous» painter: opinionated, furious, brilliant, and now reduced to living in the remote country house of his biggest collector and acting as caretaker for his younger brother, Hugh, a damaged man of imposing physicality and childlike emotional volatility.
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