THE TALE OF BRIAN AND THE HOUSE PAINTER MERVYN - Lee, Lance
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Here is a fable about what happens -when young Brian with a mysterious illness is confined to a white White WHITE room four flights up in his family's Goodly Home to avoid all excitement until a cure is found... -when Brian cries in grief for everything he has lost- the Sun and Moon, the White Sea-Dragon who curls from the Sea-fogs on the cliffs at night, the Sea, Great White-peaked Mountain, and the ancient but modern and madly eccentric town of Sandstone-by-the-Sea... -when his father Moab hires the always angry Mervyn, a mere House Painter, to paint Brian's walls with views of everything he…mehr

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Here is a fable about what happens -when young Brian with a mysterious illness is confined to a white White WHITE room four flights up in his family's Goodly Home to avoid all excitement until a cure is found... -when Brian cries in grief for everything he has lost- the Sun and Moon, the White Sea-Dragon who curls from the Sea-fogs on the cliffs at night, the Sea, Great White-peaked Mountain, and the ancient but modern and madly eccentric town of Sandstone-by-the-Sea... -when his father Moab hires the always angry Mervyn, a mere House Painter, to paint Brian's walls with views of everything he misses- for no artist will paint things just as they are- and who paints it all so well it is a New World to explore and run free in and abandon the Old, as does Brian... -when the Village goes mad, and Moab goes mad, for Brian is lost, and the Tourists are mad to find Mervyn and to get something Realer than Real, and all other businesses collapse... -when Mervyn finds a solution no one expects..
Autorenporträt
Lance Lee's selected poetry, Elemental Natures, appeared in the fall of 2020, capping 40 years of poetry publications. He is a past Creative Writing Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts. His work includes his poetry, works on screenwriting (A Poetics for Screenwriters), plays (Time's Up and Other Plays), novels (Second Chances), and various essays (in On The Waterfront, Cambridge Film Handbooks). As a dramatist has range of characters runs from the last fox in Los Angeles to Rasputin... An environmentalist, he was central in establishing the State Park system in the Santa Monica Mountains behind his home in the Los Angeles area. Half his family lives in North London where he and his wife routinely spend extended periods each year.