Looking for Home by Jane Corbett

Looking for Home by Jane Corbett

1990. Eli, a young art journalist with an interest in the painter Balthus, flies to Berlin to find out more about the mysterious artist whose refusal to divulge any biographical details sparks her interest. The Wall has fallen, but the city is uneasy. She falls in love.

1906. Merline, a gifted Jewish artist, trapped in a loveless marriage and shortly to be exiled from her beloved Paris, finds companionship in the poet Rainer Maria Rilke. War is looming on the horizon, and as life in Germany grows harsher, Merline's health deteriorates as she pines for the man whose words are all of human feeling, but whose heart remains locked away in his castle of solitude.

Eli discovers a series of letters between Merline and RenE, as she researches deeper into the life of Balthus, Merline's precocious and gifted son. Eli finds herself drawn deeper into the letters and the world they hint at tantalisingly, as they begin to take on significant parallels in her own life.

Corbett, Jane: - Jane Corbett has written both literary fiction and film scripts, several of which have been made into prize-winning feature and TV films. Following a postgrad film course and a prize at the Chicago Film Festival for her graduating film, she continued to combine writing with teaching. For several years she ran a Super 8 filmmaking course in central London, open to all comers, which fostered several interesting and successful young filmmakers. She now teaches at the National School for Film and Television and the Central Film School, learning as much from her students as they do from her. Writing film scripts is, she says, a collaborative activity with its own restrictions and advantages. The largely solitary writing of novels and stories is an interesting counterpart. Whilst it allows greater freedom for the writer, it lays on her the full responsibility for the success or failure of what she creates.

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ISBN 13	9781910852927
ISBN 10	1910852929
Title	Looking for Home
Author	Jane Corbett
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	CreateThinkDo
Year published	2016-08-22
Number of pages	288
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