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The Secret Painter

By Joe Tucker

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The Secret Painter

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Joe Tucker's Uncle Eric was a beloved yet unconventional figure throughout Joe's life. A shambolically dressed man who lived with his mother for almost eighty years, he had an almost compulsive need to charm strangers with working men's club comedy routines, and appeared to exist only for daily trips to the bookie - and yet had also amassed over five hundred of his own remarkable paintings without anyone ever realising his achievements. Towards the end of his life, Eric requested an exhibition of his work. As Joe and his family sorted through hundreds of paintings of street scenes, circus and theatre performers, and busy pubs, they began to ask more questions about Eric's life: why had this fanatically sociable man never left his mother's home? Had Eric ever experienced love when he painted it so beautifully? And what had driven him to create so much, yet share it so rarely? In this touching, funny and thoughtful investigation of the nature of expression, the ownership of art and the secret life of those nearest to us, Joe Tucker brings us into his uncle's extraordinary and compelling world. Perhaps more importantly, he also brings Eric Tucker's life's work into ours.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
224
Release Date:
2025-11-18
Publication Date:
2025-01-30
Publisher:
Canongate Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1805300660
ISBN13:
9781805300663
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
349 g
Height:
141 cm
Width:
220 cm
Thickness:
21 cm
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