Claire Nicholls
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2,363 appearances
20 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2020
last heard 13 Sep
Claire Nicholls’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Our main character, Cricket, wants to be a painter.
And wonderfully, we actually get to see some of Cricket's work in this novel.
His drawings are peppered through the pages of this book.
And I've got to tell you, they pack a big emotional punch.
Dave Eggers, welcome to the book show.
The drawings were such a lovely surprise when they first appeared.
Dave, are these your own work?
It is perfect.
You've been drawing for quite a long time, I take it, Dave?
This is exactly what we like to do on the book show.
And look, I promise I am not trying to turn Contra Posto into a piece of autofiction, autobiography, but I did want to talk about art for a moment more, Dave, because the drawings in the book are so gorgeous.
Cricket is doing life drawing, drawing of people in the nude.
Why is this such a special way to make art?
What is that relationship like when there is someone being vulnerable and beautiful in front of you?
I can't even draw a stick person, Dave.
That's so wonderful to hear.
Did I overstate it when I said at the top that Contrapposto was 20 years in the making?
He's a gorgeous boy when we first meet him.
We're going to follow him through a lifetime, really.
But when we meet our protagonist, Cricket, should we say where the name comes from first?
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