The Sitters — Alex Miller

Title: The Sitters

Author: Alex Miller

Publisher: Viking / Penguin Books Australia

Format: Paperback

Edition: First edition, 1995

ISBN: 0670862312

Condition: Second-hand. Paperback with light shelf wear, minor rubbing to the cover and spine, and light age toning to pages. Overall a clean, presentable copy. Please see photos for the exact copy available.

The Sitters is a short, subtle literary novel about an ageing portrait artist and the woman who becomes his subject. As the sitting progresses, the relationship between painter and sitter becomes charged with uncertainty, intimacy and restraint.

Quiet, spare and observant, the novel explores art, perception, desire, loneliness and the difficulty of truly seeing another person. It is a compact work from one of Australia’s most respected contemporary novelists.