03927cam a2200577 4500 595568674 TxAuBib 20220729120000.0 ||||||s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781481594530 1481594532 19c8820b-23a4-4895-87c0-79979d526c8f OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1210559 OverDrive (Product ID) 9781982491963 9781982491963 TxAuBib Van Essen, Thomas. The Center of the World [Bridges Audiobook]. Blackstone Publishing, 2013. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 272MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 272MB. nineteenth century. Alternate History. J. M. W. Turner. Helen of Troy. new england. Adirondacks. painting. New York. painter. England. Sensual. artist. art. HTML:<p>Alternating between nineteenth-century England and present-day New York, this is the story of renowned British painter J. M. W. Turner and his circle of patrons and lovers. It is also the story of Henry Leiden, a middle-aged family man with a troubled marriage and a dead-end job, who finds his life transformed by his discovery of Turner's <i>The Center of the World</i>, a mesmerizing and unsettling painting of Helen of Troy that was thought to have been lost forever.</p> <p>This painting has such devastating erotic power that it was kept hidden for almost two centuries, and was even said to have been destroyed—until Henry stumbles upon it in a secret compartment at his summer home in the Adirondacks. Though he knows it is an object of immense value, the thought of parting with it is unbearable: Henry is transfixed by its revelation of a whole other world, one of transcendent light, joy, and possibility.</p> <p>Back in the nineteenth century, Turner struggles to create <i>The Center of the World</i>, his greatest painting but a painting unlike anything he (or anyone else) has ever attempted. We meet his patron, Lord Egremont, an aristocrat in whose palatial home Turner talks freely about his art and his beliefs. We also meet Elizabeth Spencer, Egremont's mistress and Turner's muse, the model for his Helen. Meanwhile, in the present, Henry is relentlessly trailed by an unscrupulous art dealer determined to get his hands on the painting at any cost. Filled with sex, beauty, and love (of all kinds), this richly textured novel explores the intersection between art and eroticism.</p>. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-26 20:00:02. Vance, Simon. Michael, Paul. Campbell, Cassandra. Benjamin, Vanessa. Jackson, Gildart. Various Narrators. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/0887-1/1210559-TheCenterOfTheWorld.wma Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0887-1/1210559-TheCenterOfTheWorld.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=19C8820B-23A4-4895-87C0-79979D526C8F&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/0887-1/1210559-TheCenterOfTheWorld.wma Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0887-1/1210559-TheCenterOfTheWorld.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=19C8820B-23A4-4895-87C0-79979D526C8F&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)