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Each Leaf, Each Curve of Stem

著者： Victoria MacKenzie
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An epic, intimate and profound portrait novel about grief, trauma, revelation and art – by the author of the award-winning For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain

‘Every sentence sings off the page’ Jan Carson

The year is 1875, and John Ruskin is losing his mind.

The celebrated art critic, the revered Professor of Art, the author of countless books, the campaigner for social reform, the man who taught a generation to see, finds himself stumbling blindly in the wake of a terrible grief: the madness and death of a young woman he once loved.

Following Ruskin from candlelit séances in country houses to the dazzling palazzos of Venice to the rainswept hills of the Lake District, Victoria MacKenzie captures the exquisite anguish of a man who was astonishingly vibrant and alive in his work, and yet whose attempts at intimacy were hopelessly thwarted.

Beautiful, haunting and heartbreaking, Each Leaf, Each Curve of Stem is an unforgettable portrait of longing, madness, grief – and the redemptions of art and the natural world.
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Praise for For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain:
‘A beautiful book ... It warmed my heart’ MAX PORTER
‘Electrifying ... A pocket epic’ GUARDIAN
‘The best first novel I’ve read in years’ RODDY DOYLE
‘It illuminates like a shaft of sunlight’ IMOGEN HERMES GOWAR 大衆小説 文芸小説 歴史小説
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批評家のレビュー

MacKenzie has an almost painterly approach to storytelling. Each character is carefully and vividly rendered. Each sentence sings off the page … a tender and deeply humane portrait of Ruskin, revealing as much of his flawed humanity as his much celebrated genius. This is historical fiction at its most empathetic and intimate (JAN CARSON)
Assured, confident and compassionate, MacKenzie’s account of Ruskin’s life cuts through the prurient myth to give us the man as he likely was – a lonely, introverted and mentally fragile man of great intellect, lofty beliefs and quiet but intense passions (ANNIE GARTHWAITE)
Rare and tremendous. Reading this novel is like opening a new map of human experience - tracing a finger along that boundary where, with the force of tectonic plates, our inner world collides with the outer universe. John Ruskin seems born to this precipice, his need to fathom existence inescapable, art and empathy erupting along its buckles and folds, unstoppable as earthquakes and volcanoes. I adored this timely miracle of a novel (AOIFE FITZPATRICK)
Oh my, this is a brilliant, brilliant book. MacKenzie’s John Ruskin is as finely wrought as Tóibín’s Thomas Mann or Henry James. Few writers are capable of fashioning the intricacy of archival research and the life of such a complicated human being into such empathetic and beautifully imagined prose. The result is a Ruskin of flesh and bone; a human who, like the rest of us, is above all in pursuit of meaning and human connection (KAREN LLOYD)
A profoundly intimate, sensitive and moving portrait of a troubled soul. Ingenious (SEAN LUSK)
Praise for For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain: Miraculously conjured ... Brilliantly done
A beautiful book ... It warmed my heart (MAX PORTER)
Electrifying ... A pocket epic
The best first novel I've read in years ... So full and so vivid; it is amazing (RODDY DOYLE)
A vibrant portrait of female courage
A novel of rare brightness and clarity, concise and yet capacious: it illuminates like a shaft of sunlight (IMOGEN HERMES GOWAR)
MacKenzie evokes an almost unimaginably distant worldview with sympathy and sincerity
A startling read ... Magic (JO BROWNING WROE)
Moving and unexpected, Mackenzie writes with great clarity and tenderness ... I tore through this (JULIA ARMFIELD)
Magnificent, bold and compelling (ROSIE ANDREWS)
Absolutely cracking. I couldn’t put it down, it’s so simply but powerfully written. One of my favourite reads of 2023 (JAN CARSON)
Mind-expanding stuff
Stunningly original ... Not only shines a light on the lives and experiences of two ‘ordinary’ women, but draws clear contemporary echoes and parallels – around mental health, grief, motherhood and more – that resonate long after reading
Honest, insightful, erudite and wise (ANNIE GARTHWAITE)
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