Hallie's Comet
Five Star, Apr 2004, 25.95, 225 pp.
ISBN: 1594142025
Alice “Hallie” O'Brien has lately been filling her canvas with portraits of people she never met and edifices from late nineteenth century towns that she never has seen even in pictures. She desperately needs to understand why she paints people like Lady Scarlet and Knickers and Gabe, a man she is half in love though she never met him. Then there are the detailed paintings of brothels such as...