Funny, surprising, and thoroughly honest, Michael Winter's fictional memoir about the famed American artist Rockwell Kent. In 1914, artist Rockwell Kent relocates from New York City to Brigus, Newfoundland, seeking a simpler existence and artistic inspiration. His unconventional lifestyle, socialist views, and complicated personal relationships create friction within the conservative community. Set against the backdrop of the First World War, suspicions arise about this mysterious outsider's true intentions. Winter crafts an exploratory work examining an artist whose revolutionary ideas and behavior were misunderstood by his contemporaries. source
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“Bob Bartlett liked my spunk and he aggravated my drive to come. I've got a house for you, he said, in Brigus.”
The Bartlett-Kent exchange that frames the entire NL plot is anchored to a specific house in Brigus, Conception Bay.
Michael Winter, The Big Why (Bloomsbury / House of Anansi, 2004), publisher excerpt — source
