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Life class

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In the Spring of 1914 a group of students at the Slade School of Art have gathered for a life-drawing class. Paul Tarrant is easily distracted by an intriguing fellow student, Elinor Brooke, but when Kit Neville — himself not long out of the Slade but already a well-known painter — makes it clear that he, too, is attracted to Elinor, Paul withdraws into a passionate affair with an artist's model. As spring turns to summer, Paul and Elinor each reach a crisis in their relationships until finally, in the first few days of war, they turn to each other.Paul's new life as a volunteer for the…

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12 editions
  • Audiobook · English · 2010
    AudioGO · 1 pages · 9781602839939
  • Ebook · English · 2010
    Penguin Group UK · 9780141906416
  • Audiobook · English · 2008
    BBC Audiobooks America · 9781602833579
  • Hardcover · English · 2008
    Doubleday · 320 pages · 9780385524353
  • Ebook · English · 2008
    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · 9780307472441
  • Other · English · 2019
    Penguin Books, Limited · 256 pages · 9780241986493
FictionHospitalsHuman figure in artPhysicians as artistsPsychological aspectsWorld War, 1914-1918New York Times reviewedPhysicians, fiction