Book Review: Canadian author Connie Gault draws on subversive painting in new novel
· National Post
If you want to derive the full measure of A Study in Red, the fourth novel by Connie Gault, start by familiarizing yourself with Edgar Degas’ painting, Combing the Hair. Colloquially dubbed “the big red monster,” for its mesmerizing use of a colour saturated in meaning — passion, love, danger, violence — it inflames a deceptively simple, domesticated but searing image, a young woman having her hair brushed by an older woman. Read More
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