![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Over the weekend, his impact on his children comes to the fore. Mendelson avoids asking too many questions as to why Ray is as he is, the better to focus upon the havoc he wreaks. But Claudia was not quite a monster, while Ray – selfish, controlling and narcissistic – really is. Ray is reminiscent of Claudia, Mendelson’s towering matriarch in her 2007 Orange Prize-shortlisted When We Were Bad. Recently longlisted for The Women’s Prize, The Exhibitionist is set across one frantic weekend in 2010, during which Ray, who hasn’t enjoyed any real acclaim since 1971, mounts an exhibition that will put him back on the artistic map. Protecting her painter husband Ray from this knowledge has been her life’s work. A sculptor of great talent herself, she is, author Charlotte Mendelson tells us, “not without ambition”. Lucia Hanrahan is introduced to us as “the artist’s wife”. ![]()
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