How to Paint a Dead Man features a reclusive, Morandi-like painter, a modern British landscapist, a blind girl pursued by a demon that has escaped from a Renaissance masterpiece, and an innovating London curator.
Even reclusive guys like Bryant.
Reclusive artists like Jandek and Mr. Moore used to be at the mercy of their own idiosyncrasies — they gradually gathered far-flung fans by mail or in the dusty corners of specialty record shops, or not at all.
Or you can develop a grumpy, reclusive persona, like Cormac McCarthy, the lone writer of Santa Fe, never talk to the press, live like a man in a cave and not give a damn.
She famously brought up her children, Heather by her first marriage, then Mary, Stella and the more reclusive James, like any other kids, eschewing fancy boarding schools and fabulously expensive presents in favour of a life more grounded and ordinary.
Once a far-flung hideaway for honeymooners and reclusive figures like Marlon Brando, this French Polynesian island is now surprisingly accessible, thanks to new airline routes from the United States and a wave of luxury resorts opening this year.
You won't see them strung between tree branches or in the corner of the house, but in "reclusive" spots like under boxes, in woodpiles, or other unused out of the way areas.
Mr. Turner, who has known Mr. Langmuir for many years, describes him as the kind of reclusive dealer who likes to collect things but then usually cannot bear to part with them.
I think that he's not as reclusive as everyone likes to imagine.
The reclusive actress sounds very like the Drabble of "A Writer's Britain": "I trod in the footsteps of the Wordsworths and Coleridge and Lorna Doone, I made my way through a thousand pages of The Glastonbury Romance".
