Portrait of Jenny Read By Robert Nathan
| Title | : | Portrait of Jenny |
| Author | : | Robert Nathan |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Page | : | 124 pages |
| ISBN | : |
The supernatural love story of a depression era artist and a young girl slipping through time, this spellbinding classic from 1940 is a masterpiece of modern fantasy This special edition features original introductions by Peter S Beagle The Last Unicorn and Sean Stewart Mockingbird Real magic realism from a time worse and better than most of us can imagine Read thi The supernatural love story of a depression era artist and a young girl slipping through time, this spellbinding classic from 1940 is a masterpiece of modern fantasy This special edition features original introductions by Peter S Beagle The Last Unicorn and Sean Stewart Mockingbird Real magic realism from a time worse and better than most of us can imagine Read this, and be enchanted Gene Wolfe Welcome back, Portrait of Jennie It touched and frightened me when I was twenty four Now, once , it touches and frightens Ray Bradbury I first read Robert Nathan s Portrait of Jennie as impressionable young man of sixteen or seventeen It appealed to the na ve romantic in me Reading it thirty five years later, I note the clean simplicity of its prose, its economical evocations of character and setting, and its unflamboyant wisdom Yesterday is just as true as today only we forget Portrait of Jennie reminds us of that truth again Michael Bishop There is a curious sweetness about this tragedy a sweetness that comes from Robert Nathan s evocation of Jennie, a tender wise innocent and muse This story is a valentine Maureen McHugh One of the most durable successes in the fantasy business Judith Merrill a haunting story of love and art and time travel Mythprint
about Author
Nathan was born into a prominent New York Sephardic family He was educated in the United States and Switzerland and attended Harvard University for several years beginning in 1912 It was there that he began writing short fiction and poetry However, he never graduated, choosing instead to drop out and take a job at an advertising firm to support his family he married while a junior at Harvard Nathan was born into a prominent New York Sephardic family He was educated in the United States and Switzerland and attended Harvard University for several years beginning in 1912 It was there that he began writing short fiction and poetry However, he never graduated, choosing instead to drop out and take a job at an advertising firm to support his family he married while a junior at Harvard It was while working in 1919 that he wrote his first novel the semi autobiographical work Peter Kindred which was a critical failure But his luck soon changed during the 1920s, when he wrote seven novels, including The Bishop s Wife, which was later made into a successful film starring Cary Grant, David Niven, and Loretta Young.During the 1930s, his success continued with works, including fictional pieces and poetry In 1940, he wrote his most successful book, Portrait of Jennie, about a Depression era artist and the woman he is painting, who is slipping through time Portrait of Jennie is considered a modern masterpiece of fantasy fiction and was made into a film, starring Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotten.In January 1956 the author wrote, as well as narrated, an episode of the CBS Radio Workshop, called A Pride of Carrots or Venus Well Served Nathan s seventh wife was the British actress Anna Lee, to whom he was married from 1970 until his death He came from a talented family the activist Maud Nathan and author Annie Nathan Meyer were his aunts, and the poet Emma Lazarus and Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo his cousins 
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The supernatural love story of a depression era artist and a young girl slipping through time, this spellbinding classic from 1940 is a masterpiece of
124 pagesRobert Nathan
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