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Escape from Time
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Artikel-Nr:
9781909833487
Veröffentl:
2016
Seiten:
104
Autor:
Stacey Lane
eBook Typ:
EPUB
eBook Format:
Reflowable
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
The night watchman in an art gallery does not notice that six of the portraits are missing from their picture frames. They have been left stranded on the floor of the gallery and have made a decision to strike out for freedom.Their escape becomes an adventurous search for security in a home of their choosing. Their diverse historical and social backgrounds and assumptions are compounded when they meet two contemporary homeless men. One is helpful and happy to join them; the other dogs them to exact revenge.The final destination of the humans, as well as the remaining five portraits, is an ancient manor, once the sixteenth century family home of one of them where they settle in peace.
The night watchman in an art gallery does not notice that six of the portraits are missing from their picture frames. They have been left stranded on the floor of the gallery and have made a decision to strike out for freedom. Their escape becomes an adventurous search for security in a home of their choosing. Their diverse historical and social backgrounds and assumptions are compounded when they meet two contemporary homeless men. One is helpful and happy to join them; the other dogs them to exact revenge. The final destination of the humans, as well as the remaining five portraits, is an ancient manor, once the sixteenth century family home of one of them where they settle in peace.
The story blends fantasy with the real.Six of the main characters live a half-life, since they are portraits on canvas. They have stepped out of their frames, complete with memories and feelings from their mortal existence, and they encounter contemporary flesh-and-blood people with their own problems. This mix involves contrasting historical, social and economic differences which require adjustments in everyone’s attitudes.The activity of the portraits is more like a cryonic, re-awakened consciousness rather than time travel but, unlike the humans with whom they associate, their lives are as long, or as short, as the canvas on which they are painted.