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374 pages (large print) ; 24 cm, Originally published: London: Doubleday
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ia/crimsonportrait0000shie_b7b6.pdf
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by Jody Shields
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Whole Story Audio Books
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W.F. Howes Ltd
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W F Howes Ltd
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United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom
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Large print ed., Rearsby, England, 2007
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Originally published: London: Doubleday.
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After losing her husband, Charles, in WWI, Catherine honors his wish to turn their home over to the army's medical unit, and it is soon filled with men wounded in combat, such as Julian, who, though half his face has been destroyed by shrapnel, reminds her of Charles. Dr. McCleary, who left retirement to work at the hospital, bonds with Julian while trying to keep Artis, an aspiring doctor and former groundskeeper, from being drafted. Also on staff is artist Anna Coleman, who sketches the wounded for medical records and lends her artistic talents to an undertaking proposed by Dr. McCleary: he wants to create a mask for a patient with an irreparably damaged face; Anna is to paint the soldier's pre-injury face on the mask. When that soldier turns out to be Julian, Catherine secretly embarks on a plan to resurrect her husband through her new lover. Shields's writing weaves dark mythical symbolism with matter-of-fact medical nitty-gritty to reveal what happens when class, ignorance, hopefulness and despair coalesce.
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Spring 1915. On A Sprawling Country Estate Not Far From London, A Young Woman Mourns Her Husband, Fallen On A Distant Battlefield. The Eerie Stillness In Which She Grieves Is Abruptly Shattered As Her Home Is Transformed Into A Bustling Military Hospital. Recoiling From The Chaos And Unhinged By Grief, The Young Widow Finds Unexpected Refuge In A Tender Young Soldier Whose Face, Concealed By Bandages, She Cannot See. Their Affair Takes A Fateful Turn When She Confronts - And Seizes Upon - The Opportunity To Remake Her Lover In The Image Of Her Lost Husband...
