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The Boy and the Painter

Scenes from Alfred Wallis's St Ives

by Albert Rowe

Description

The author was a relation of the painter Alfred Wallis and the title story in this collection describes graphically and with humour the boy’s fraught relationship with the old man: “Lovely fish,” I said sincerely. I didn’t think much of the boats, for they were of a kind I’d drawn when I was much younger … “I’ll tell’ee something about them fish”, Alfred said. He lowered his voice, glanced towards the stairs that led up to the bedroom. “I don’t want she to ‘ear. She’s up there, you knaw. They do all think she’s dead but she edn’t” …’

The Boy and the Painter

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Reviews

‘That celebrated painter, Alfred Wallis, has inspired his stepson’s grandson Albert Rowe to write The Boy and the Painter. Now and again one picks up a gem of a book which, despite its modest size remains in one’s mind for weeks. Rowe is a superb writer, writing not only in the dialect of the ’20s and ’30s but under the influence of the mindset of the time. Thus something which is dated becomes dateless.’ Cornish Guardian

Bibliographic Information

  • Publisher/Imprint Tabb House Books / Tabb House
  • Publication Date June 2002
  • Orginal LanguageEnglish
  • ISBN/Identifier 9781873951415 / 1873951418
  • FormatHardback
  • Primary Price 12.99 GBP
  • Pages112
  • ReadershipGeneral
  • Publish StatusPublished
  • Page size21 (204 x 134) mm
  • Biblio Notesin Pbk 9781873951422.2002.

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