Keeping the World Away

Talks about the fictional adventures of an early 20th-century painting and the women whose lives it touches. This novel opens with bold, passionate Gwen, struggling to be an artist, leaving for Paris where she becomes Rodin's lover and paints a small, intimate picture of a quiet corner of her attic room.

Vorbeste despre aventurile fictive ale unei picturi de la inceputul secolului al XX-lea si despre femeile ale caror vieti le atinge. Acest roman se deschide cu Gwen indrazneata si pasionata, care se straduieste sa devina artista, plecand la Paris, unde devine iubita lui Rodin si picteaza o imagine mica si intima a unui colt linistit al camerei ei de la mansarda.