Sentences with phrase «kaleidoscopic portrait»

With her «conversational writing style and a knack for making readers care about her characters» (The Washington Post) bestselling author Sarah Pekkanen paints a vivid, kaleidoscopic portrait of a marriage before and during a crisis — and of a woman who fears that the biggest secret of all may be the one she's hiding from herself.

Although more than $ 32 million was pumped into this kaleidoscopic portrait of American life in 1906, RAGTIME is too long, too splintered in its characterizations, and too much of a good thing squeezed dry.

Not exact matches

Using black and white photographs, she shreds and then pieces together portraits of famous celebrities, from Nina Simone to Al Capone, and creates kaleidoscopic patterns.

At the center of each piece on view is a phantasmagoric figure, portrayed in a portrait format, made of decomposing fruit, branches, bones and snakes, and surrounded by a kaleidoscopic array of color and texture.