![]() "The west of Ireland looked good to Cal Hooper on the internet. ![]() The New York Times Cosmopolitan Buzzfeed Bustle E! News Parade The Washington Post Vox Entertainment Weekly TIME Vogue Parade CrimeReads The Week New York Post The Millions PopSugar Kirkus Publishers Weekly Top 10 ![]() "One of the greatest crime novelists writing today" (Vox) weaves a masterful, atmospheric tale of suspense, asking how to tell right from wrong in a world where neither is simple, and what we stake on that decision. But when a local kid whose brother has gone missing arm-twists him into investigating, Cal uncovers layers of darkness beneath his picturesque retreat, and starts to realize that even small towns shelter dangerous secrets. After twenty-five years in the Chicago police force and a bruising divorce, he just wants to build a new life in a pretty spot with a good pub where nothing much happens. Best Book of 2020 New York Times NPR New York Post "This hushed suspense tale about thwarted dreams of escape may be her best one yet…Its own kind of masterpiece."-Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post "A new Tana French is always cause for celebration…Read it once for the plot read it again for the beauty and subtlety of French's writing."-Sarah Lyall, The New York Times Cal Hooper thought a fixer-upper in a bucolic Irish village would be the perfect escape. ![]()
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![]() Hall for the purpose of providing thoughtful persons rare access to the depth and breadth of the world's wisdom literature. The Philosophical Research Society is a non-profit organization founded in 1934 by Manly P. Hall delivered over 8000 lectures in the United States and abroad, authored over 200 books, essays, and magazine articles, and left the world one of the finest libraries in the field, as well as a University that continues in his spirit of universal learning. In his long career, spanning more than seventy years of dynamic public activity, Mr. He embraced the wisdom of every tradition and, with a fluid command of the obscure and complex contents of these traditions, worked to express their unifying truths. ![]() While neither guru nor saint (he made no claim of perfection, far from it), his work is exceedingly rare in its grand scope, detail and synthesis. Hall spoke and wrote extensively on the wisdom found in all ancient traditions, and the deep cross-cultural threads and many interconnected roots of modern religious expression. As the Philosophical Research Society's founder and first president, he began his career in an era when most Americans did not look toward other cultures and traditions without looking down. Hall (1901-1990) was a seeker and lover of wisdom (the very definition of a philosopher) he had the courage and raw energy to look for wisdom in places most men had long since forgotten or never knew existed. ![]() ![]() ![]() Behind the Canvas was one of my LibraryThing Early Reviewers program wins. This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. I will have to purchase a physical copy of the book to see if this is true, I hope so! If not then I recommend reading the book with a notebook and pen to write down paintings and artists to look up, which sounds fun anyway! At the beginning of the chapters there would be excerpts from what felt like an art textbook, which was fun and educating but I was worried that I was missing seeing paintings and artists that they were talking about. ![]() However I feel like I might have missed some things by listening instead of reading a hardback or paperback copy. ![]() I won't say more about the story because I don't want to spoil it! I really enjoyed the audio book, the narrator did a great job. Claudia Miravista is a young artist that discovers something strange on a school trip to an art museum. This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.Who wouldn't enjoy being able to go into a painting of your choosing? Behind the Canvas is a great book for all ages of people who love art or want to love it. ![]() |