The Figures of Beauty: A Novel, by David Macfarlane
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The Figures of Beauty: A Novel, by David Macfarlane
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“Rich, imaginative. . . . One of the best novels I’ve read all year.”—Ross King, author of Leonardo and the Last Supper
A sensuous, heartbreaking novel about art, beauty, and the choices we make that define us for life.
In 1968 a young man travels to Paris, where a series of unlikely events takes him to a tiny village in Italy—and to the one great love of his life. A marble merchant meets a couple on their honeymoon, introducing them to the sensual beauty of Carrara. An Italian woman arrives in Canada to find the father she never knew. A terrible accident in a marble quarry changes the course of a young boy’s life and, ultimately, sets in motion each of these stories, which David Macfarlane masterfully shapes into a magnificent whole.
“A beautifully written, complex, and bittersweet story that spans continents and eras.”—Daphne Kalotay, author of Russian Winter and Sight Reading
The Figures of Beauty: A Novel, by David Macfarlane- Amazon Sales Rank: #3275178 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-13
- Released on: 2015-10-13
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x .79" w x 5.31" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 352 pages
Review “A complex, densely written and dreamlike narrative…. A moving tale of love, fate and regret.” (Wall Street Journal)Praise for The Danger Tree: “About the best prose to ever come out of this country, for my money.” (Alice Munro on The Danger Tree)“A meditation on the degree to which we mortals really lack much control over our lives…Sub-textually, Figures of Beauty is also an aesthetic treatise of the human impulse to make beauty, to create art. And Macfarlane tells this story in a deeply affecting way.” (Toronto Star)“The Figures of Beauty is a rich, imaginative novel about art, life and beauty. It’s epic in scale but intimate in tone, with Macfarlane’s prose as crisp and pure as Carrara marble. One of the best novels I’ve read all year.” (Ross King, author of Leonardo and The Last Supper on The Figures of Beauty)“A beautifully written, complex, and bittersweet story that spans continents and eras. Macfarlane teases his story to the surface as meticulously as his sculptors (Michelangelo, Brancusi) extracted their forms from marble - and always with a vivid sense of place, from a small Ontario community to the hill towns of Carrera.” (Daphne Kalotay, author of Russian Winter and Sight Reading on The Figures of Beauty)“Summer Gone is a homage to our most excruciating and beautiful memories. Within this novel is the marvellous height of summer, perfect and fleeting, a place and time we can never get enough of.” (The Globe and Mail on Summer Gone)“Macfarlane sculpts several disparate tales into a smooth, rock-solid whole. His ambitions are high, but in a language as rich as the fruits of the scenic landscapes in which he situates his characters and their stories, he pulls off a far grander narrative with skill and intrigue.” (Leslie Ken Chu, Vancouver Weekly on The Figures of Beauty)“A beautifully contemplative first novel about fathers and sons, memory, and the spirituality of wilderness.” (Booklist on Summer Gone)“Macfarlane skillfully evokes an atmosphere at once somber and slightly ominous.” (Library Journal on Summer Gone)
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“Rich, imaginative. . . . One of the best novels I’ve read all year.”—Ross King, author of Leonardo and the Last Supper
A sensuous, heartbreaking novel about art, beauty, and the choices we make that define us for life.
In 1968 a young man travels to Paris, where a series of unlikely events takes him to a tiny village in Italy—and to the one great love of his life. A marble merchant meets a couple on their honeymoon, introducing them to the sensual beauty of Carrara. An Italian woman arrives in Canada to find the father she never knew. A terrible accident in a marble quarry changes the course of a young boy’s life and, ultimately, sets in motion each of these stories, which David Macfarlane masterfully shapes into a magnificent whole.
“A beautifully written, complex, and bittersweet story that spans continents and eras.”—Daphne Kalotay, author of Russian Winter and Sight Reading
About the Author
David Macfarlane’s memoir, The Danger Tree, was originally published in the United States under the title Come from Away. Christopher Hitchens described it as “intense and beautiful.” Simon Winchester called it “a true masterpiece.” His novel Summer Gone was a finalist for Canada’s most prestigious literary award, the Giller Prize. The Figures of Beauty is his third book. He lives in Toronto.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Excellent Romantic and Familial Drama! By Glenda I must admit for me the latest book by David Macfarlane was more educational than literary fiction. He introduces readers into a totally new world for many who have no knowledge of one of the most beautiful natural stones in the world. For the average person in the U.S., we may not even see marble... My one and only experience was, surprisingly for me at the time, to see it in a bathroom stall on a university campus... I remember I used to touch it, marveling that something, probably so expensive, would be used in bathrooms! LOL Of course as I thought about it, it was in a building that housed the mineral industries program so it did make sense. But I still remember that every time I was in the room, I would touch it and love the feel of the smooth wonder of stone and the markings that made it that much more attractive to me.The book has historical information about how the marble was originally formed and provides much information about the use and the business of the quarries there in Carrara--a town that probably wouldn't have existed if not for the marble quarry. It was the only company that provided jobs for the town people, but we quickly learn that the people of the town are not rich, nor are they involved in a safe or satisfying environment in which to work... It is dangerous; the loss of life almost routine... And the owner might not even be told about an accident until a day or two later, when the supervisor meets for this routine session. There is almost a separation--those who work the quarries--and those who are the artists and artisans who touch and chip and mold the marble into "figures of beauty" that will outlast the lives of those who created them... This is a story about those people there in Cararra or those who visited and never lost the memories of that time...David Macfarlane indicated in an interview that he had once visited near the Cararra Quarries and decided to stay...and fell in love... It was the basis for his latest book, but I had to wonder what happened to his real love affair...LOL... which, of course, has no bearing on the book, right?This certainly is not a happy-ending love story, yet readers will find that we still are drawn in hearing about a young couple who fell in love one summer. The intrigue really begins however when a daughter of that young man decides she wants to meet the father who never knew she existed... And she tracks him down in Canada and discovers that there is a real connection which he keeps up through writing letters. But, even then, that also does not end happily...Macfarlane includes a number of other scenarios of relationships that developed in Cararra. One other caught my attention, almost as much as the lovers. It was a young boy who worked in the quarry, not yet old enough to be more than a gofer-type for the men, but they enjoyed having him around... until he watched as a block of marble landed on a picnic table where his three family members, and others, were instantly killed... Death was taken for granted so that the young boy immediately realized that he now would be the oldest and must become head of the family... For, him, alone, his story is somewhat better...but at the end of his hard life, working with marble...readers must question whether it was worth it... This is Macfarlane's demand--that we look inside, question, and, hopefully, make some right decisions... regarding love, family responsibility, and to...ourselves...Anna was her name. She was a sculpture, but, more, a free spirit. When her lover left her that summer, she may or may not have already known she would soon have a child... It is her daughter, though, that tells the readers about their life.Readers will no doubt capture that, given the time, and the surroundings, most of what occurred outside of working hours was to share stories... Even Charles Dickens wrote of Cararra...Over and over throughout the book we hear of Michelangelo's presence in the town and love of their marble. His sculpture, David, of course, being the most well-known... He was known to come and actually go to the quarries to select the marble he would use. On of the intriguing stories told was that he had planned to carve one mountain that would remain there. That location, unfortunately, has now yielded way for other types of products...To make the story even more complex in enveloping the area at the time, readers also find themselves learning what was happening with the war efforts, especially with the Germans in 1944 and on into Paris in 1948. Of course, this is where we meet Oliver Hughson, who has received a small scholarship for touring Europe, but was not able to get his money before he happened to get involved in seeing a murder! Fortunately, the police investigator believed him but told him to leave Paris immediately or he could be sucked into something that could not be controlled. So did that make it the fateful event that brought him into the vicinity of Anna?It was not until 2009, however, that a young woman traveled to Cathcart Ontario, to meet Oliver... He had left Teresa's mother Anna when there had been illness in the family. He had moved back home with his parents and stayed, never to marry. When Teresa found him, ironically, he was sitting by the pool... When she saw it, she realized that the pool and the entire area around it, was exactly like one found on the "terraced grounds of a villa in the northwest corner of Tuscany... And that was the lead-in for another venue to be added to the book but I'm not going to get into that particular story, except to mention that the young boy who had seen his family members killed wound up there!As usual I am attracted to the personalities of the characters. Anna will be "discovered" during her time with Oliver and when Teresa is older and, somewhat forcefully, seeking information about her father. To Oliver, she was a total and, ultimately, very welcomed addition to his life...Teresa was so anxious to learn about his time and feelings for Anna and his thoughts about Italy and why he left and never came back. In fact, Oliver had learned very little about any of Europe during that "traveling tour"... Forced to leave Paris, he made him way into Anna's life and never left there until he returned home. Nevertheless Teresa was relentless in learning about him and when she finally had to return home, demanded he write to her. He wrote such wonderful letters to her, readers will discover...And then there is Anna...she is so passionate about so much, but I couldn't quite get a feel for her work. It was her own comparison of herself to who she considered to be gods in the arts that left her still humble, but she seemed to compare herself more to Brancusi but checking out his work was not totally helpful... So I wound up still being confused about what her art might have been like... But then, again, while Anna knew much about the world of art, she really didn't know much about her lover, Oliver, often calling him stupido... Not a way to "Play nice" but she seemed to not consider that their breakup was due to anyone but Oliver... I felt sorry for Anna never really looking closely at more than her own artistic endeavors...As you can see, there is no way readers will not have a learning experience with this book. The Figures of Beauty is not only sharing about these figures literally, but perhaps also metaphorically as we follow the paths of individuals who meet and share some part of another's life, then moves on, only to discover what beauty in their own lives may have been lost. I have no way to know whether my thoughts have any validity in what I saw in this book. But I do know that the romantic and familial drama is well worth recommending even if my absorption of the use of marble to create such figures is purely my own response...Highly recommended to those interested in literary family and romantic drama...GABixlerReviewsHardback Book Provided by Publisher
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A Modern Masterpiece By Girolamo I have just finished reading Figures of Beauty for the third time and have decided I will use it in a course at the university where I teach. I can say without any hesitation - but with some serious reflection - it is one of the best novels I have read. I continue to be amazed by its elegant but straightforward prose, the myriad, almost infinite, intricacies of its plot line, and the enormity of the wallop it packs. If you read it, its characters will be with you for good; you won't be able to forget them, even if you might want to sometimes.The book is likely not for everyone; while it is easy to read, it is anything but "an easy read." If you read it, you will read at its speed (which may not be your usual) or you will put it down. Chapters are short, and a few at a time is probably all you'll read. There is extensive use of plot line intercutting, and on my first reading it annoyed me; I didn't think it was really necessary. I was wrong; on my second reading, it seemed inevitable - and impossible to have done differently. Still, a certain patience is required of the reader, simply because the story is a complex one and the telling of it very detailed. But by the end, it all comes together in quite an extraordinary way.I consider the book something of a masterpiece, and I congratulate David Macfarlane on it. I have all his other books on order.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. The jumping around was a little too much for me ... By Richard Zug The jumping around was a little too much for me. I hoped to hear a little more about to actual stone carving
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