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Circles of Deceit

(1987)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
1987 Booker Prize (shortlist)

Major figures in the life of the narrator, a painter who specializes as a copyist, are Clio, his child-bride, Helen, his first wife, and his mother Maisie. They confound lies and the truth in a subtle weave, while the silent agony of the painter's son is a reflection on the busy web of deception.


Genre: Literary Fiction

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