{"product_id":"lines-of-vision","title":"Lines of Vision","description":"Condition: BRAND NEW\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780500517567\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2014\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003e'The paintings were windows through which I could see snippets of other people's past lives, and in doing so recognize something of my own.' So muses Christine Dwyer Hickey in her response to \u003ci\u003eThe Goose Girl\u003c\/i\u003e by Stanley Royle in a collection of new writing that brings together two celebrated traditions: art and literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMore than fifty acclaimed Irish novelists, playwrights and poets have selected pictures from the National Gallery of Ireland as setting-off points to explore ideas and tell stories about art, love, loss, family, dreams, memory, places and privacy. The artworks and the literary responses to them are wonderfully vibrant in their diversity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The paintings were windows through which I could see snippets of other people's past lives, and in doing so recognize something of my own.' So muses Christine Dwyer Hickey in her response to \u003ci\u003eThe Goose Girl\u003c\/i\u003e by Stanley Royle. Seamus Heaney finds quiet beauty in a canal path by Gustave Caillebotte; Roddy Doyle gives voice to a man in a crowd painted by Jack B. Yeats; Colm Tóibín considers a portrait redolent with possibilities by John Butler Yeats; John Banville sheds light on Caravaggio's darkness; Jennifer Johnston recollects colourful mealtimes by way of Bonnard; Kevin Barry tells the tale of a bittersweet fairground encounter, stirred by Ernest Procter's \u003ci\u003eThe Devil's Disc\u003c\/i\u003e; Colum McCann visualizes women workers in wartime factories via Mary Swanzy's abstract Propellers; Paula Meehan poignantly presents the postwar world inhabited by Irish artist Gerard Dillon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach of the writers in \u003ci\u003eLines of Vision\u003c\/i\u003e creates and connects vividly wi","brand":"RANDOM HOUSE","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":41516104810629,"sku":"PR399186","price":67.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0213\/3637\/files\/image_TNXEVK5XE72R.jpg?v=1770643123","url":"https:\/\/smartfoxbooks.com.au\/products\/lines-of-vision","provider":"Smartfox Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}