Portrait of the Artist's Wife

by Barbara Anderson

Book Overview

While Sarah Tandy is determined to nurture her talent as a painter and keep her marriage intact, her husband, Jack Macalister, is equally determined to remain the cheerfully philandering and selfish... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393034895
• ISBN13: 9780393034899
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

very engaging, relationship centered, emotional...

to me, this book was very much about different kinds of relationships. Sarah and Jack, the main characters, have a distant relationship - they do not wish to be too deeply involved in each others lives, and that is what makes their relationship last. Then there are olga and otto becker, the old couple who are still deeply deeply in love at the end of thier lives. how often does that happen? its beautiful. There are also the relationships of sarahs sister, mother and father, and more... i guess i would have like to have the book go a bit more deeply into the characters' motivations and rationale, etc. but anyway, a lovely book.

Inspired to tears.

Definitely one of the best books I've read in ages. The author transcends the usual pettiness of this type of novel, and the story had my attention from the first page. Her writing is evocative, reminding me of my own life experiences. She uses unpretentious language, painting a starkly clear picture of the creation of the Author's Wife