McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1997, 1^st/1^st.  ISBN 0-7710-8664-4.  Hard cover, 340 pages plus Acknowledgements.  Very good; very light edge wear; binding sound with headbands.  Very good dust jacket, price-clipped and protected in BroDart cover.  Interior clean and unmarked; faint splash marks at upper text block corner.  Winner of the 1997 Governor General’s Award for English-language fiction.  ‘This is the story of Austin Fraser, an American minimalist painter now in his later years who, after receiving a letter concerning a woman he knew long ago, finds himself surrounded by his past.  He is haunted by those whose lives most deeply touched his; … – a young Canadian soldier and china painter; a First World War nurse; the well-known painter Rockwell Kent; and the beautiful, self-sufficient Sara Pengelly, who became Austin’s model and then his mistress.’ (from front flap)