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The Sitters

The Sitters

by Alex Miller
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Age range: 0 to 0 years old Publication Date: 01/09/2003
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'A narrow, vertical painting, tightly enclosing the scene. Her pale arm and her pale thigh. Viewed at a diagonal through an exceedingly tall doorway. just a glimpse of something.'

An ageing portrait artist meets a woman who unsettles him, yet inspires him to paint her. Reluctantly, at first, they are drawn together.

The ambiguity of the relationship between painter and subject is revealed through Alex Miller's subtle, sensuous narrative. The artist must watch and wait to trap the shy beast. For the skill of portraiture is in seeing beyond the face, beyond the likeness.

'Like Patrick White, Miller uses the painter to portray the ambivalence of art and the artist. In The Sitters is the brooding genius of light. Its presence is made manifest in Miller's supple, painterly prose which layers words into textured moments.' - The Sunday Age

'An awesomely elegant, subtly sensuous, stylish exploration of the inner self of an ageing portrait artist. If there were doubts about the maturity of Australian fiction, this book puts those doubts to rest.' - Frank Moorhouse and Sue Woolfe, 1995 NSW Premier's Awards

'The description of the creative process is extraordinary.' - The Weekend Australian
ISBN:
9781741142273
9781741142273
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Age range:
0 to 0 years old
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-09-2003
Publisher:
ALLEN & UNWIN
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
144
Dimensions (mm):
194x130x11mm
Weight:
0.14kg
Alex Miller

All of Alex Miller's novels have been critically acclaimed and have won or been shortlisted in all of the major Australian literary awards.

He is twice winner of Australia's premier literary prize, the Miles Franklin Literary Award, and is an overall winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for The Ancestor Game.

In 2015, The Simplest Words, Alex Miller's first collection of stories, memoir, commentary and poetry, was published to great acclaim.

Alex Miller is published internationally and his works have been widely translated

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