· Written with wit and exuberance by accomplished historians, Blindspot is an affectionate send-up of the best of eighteenth-century fiction. It celebrates the art of the Enlightenment and the passion of the American Revolution by telling stories of ordinary people caught up Brand: Random House Publishing Group. Written with wit and exuberance by longtime friends and accomplished historians Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore, Blindspot weaves together invention with actual historical documents in an affectionate send-up of the best of eighteenth-century fiction, from epistolary novels like Richardson’s Clarissa to Sterne’s picaresque Tristram Shandy. Blindspot: A Novel - Kindle edition by Kamensky, Jane, Lepore, Jill. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Blindspot: A Novel/5(73).
by Jane Kamensky, Jill Lepore. Published: Hardcover: pages. 3 members reading this now court records, even love letters. Our novel, Blindspot, gives readers the chance to be historians, too. Set in Boston on the eve of the American Revolution, Blindspot interleaves real documents, like clippings from the Boston Gazette. November-December Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore, Blindspot, (Random House, $) Jane Kamensky (left) and Jill Lepore. Photograph by Nina Subin. Jill Lepore and Jane Kamensky, friends since graduate school, didn't plan to write a book. Their project, set in s Boston, was supposed to be a sketch, a playful spoof of two genres: the. Review: Blindspot, Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore Stuart Jameson, a face-painter, is forced to flee his debts in Scotland for the small provincial city of Boston in the American colonies. He makes every effort to appear an honorable man in order to solicit customers, including hiring an apprentice.
Blindspot is a surprisingly engaging historical novel set in Boston in As a native of Boston (now living elsewhere), I truly enjoyed the references fo historical landmarks, people and events. As an artist, the story of a portraitist and his talented apprentice was fun to read. Blindspot. by. Jane Kamensky, Jill Lepore. · Rating details · 1, ratings · reviews. “Tis a small canvas, this Boston,” muses Stewart Jameson, a Scottish portrait painter who, having fled his debtors in Edinburgh, has washed up on America’s far shores. Eager to begin anew in this new world, he advertises for an apprentice, but the lad who comes knocking is no lad at all. Jane Kamensky is the author of Blindspot ( avg rating, ratings, reviews, published ), A People and a Nation ( avg rating, rating.
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