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The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart
bookshelves: winter-20132014, tbr-busting-2014, nutty-nuut, published-2001, booker-longlist, e-book, lit-richer, historical-fiction, spring-2014, religion, roman-catholic, canada, art-forms
Read from January 26 to March 01, 2014
Aaaw - most of the flisters who I look to for truthful reviews, read this without giving a hint except for star ratings. So I go in blind except for the stats.
Dedication: For G.P. and in memory of Sandra Gwyn
Opening quote:
Opening: In June of 1934, two men stand talking in the shadows of the great unfinished monument. Behind them rises a massive marble base flanked by classically sculpted groups of figures and surmounted by an enormous stone woman who is draped in the manner of a medieval mourner.
Father Gstir does Canada after Epiphany in Bavarian Mountains
Dedication: For G.P. and in memory of Sandra Gwyn
Opening quote:
"I have been eating and sleeping stone for so long it has become an obsession with me. And, incidentally, a nightmare" - Walter Allward
Opening: In June of 1934, two men stand talking in the shadows of the great unfinished monument. Behind them rises a massive marble base flanked by classically sculpted groups of figures and surmounted by an enormous stone woman who is draped in the manner of a medieval mourner.
Father Gstir does Canada after Epiphany in Bavarian Mountains
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