TY - BOOK AU - Cronin,A.J. TI - A thing of beauty /by A.J. Cronin AV - PR6005 .T456 1956 PY - 1956/// CY - Boston PB - Little, Brown KW - Art KW - Fiction KW - Man-woman relationships N1 - "Book club edition"--Jacket; 2 N2 - Dr. Cronin writes of a great painter whose search for beauty led him to give up everything for art: family, friends, social position, career, ultimately his very life and who bequeathed to others a heritage of immortal beauty; A Thing of Beauty is altogether a memorable novel, whose characters and diverse moods are woven together with a skill and an appeal mastered with a skill and an appeal mastered by only the greatest storytellers of any age ER -