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Jordan Winter's powerful new book, The Big Why, superbly fictionalizes a critical year in the life span of famous American artist Rockwell Kent. In 1914, at age thirty, London chooses to flee the world of Nyc and proceed to Brigus, Newfoundland, together with his three kids and partner to check out a couple of months later. A socialist and a philanderer, particular in the success of his work, he's driven north by a fascination for the rugged Atlantic coastline and by the exemplory instance of Brigusis other well known citizen, legendary Arctic explorer Robert Bartlett. But when in Newfoundland, London finds that prestige is actually more straightforward to accomplish in a little city than in Ny.