Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper
Author : Harriet Scott Chessman
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,2 MB
Release : 2004
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Lydia Cassat Reading the Morning Paper
Author : Harriet Scott Chessman
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 20,4 MB
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1609802535
Book Description
Harriet Scott Chessman takes us into the world of Mary Cassatt's early Impressionist paintings through Mary's sister Lydia, whom the author sees as Cassatt’s most inspiring muse. Chessman hauntingly brings to life Paris in 1880, with its thriving art world. The novel’s subtle power rises out of a sustained inquiry into art’s relation to the ragged world of desire and mortality. Ill with Bright’s disease and conscious of her approaching death, Lydia contemplates her world narrowing. With the rising emotional tension between the loving sisters, between one who sees and one who is seen, Lydia asks moving questions about love and art’s capacity to remember. Chessman illuminates Cassatt’s brilliant paintings and creates a compelling portrait of the brave and memorable model who inhabits them with such grace. Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper includes five full-color plates, the entire group of paintings Mary Cassatt made of her sister.
Someone Not Really Her Mother
Author : Harriet Scott Chessman
Publisher : Center Point
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 26,84 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781585475865
Book Description
As Hannah Pearl's memories of her 1940 escape to England from war-torn France all but erase her more recent American life, each of her daughters struggles with facing the mystery of Hannah's unspoken memories of grief. Hannah’s daughter Miranda attempts to bring her mother into the present, yet finds herself pulled deeper into a past that Hannah kept secret. In the meantime, Miranda’s daughters, Fiona and Ida, confront the shadows of their grandmother’s heartbreaking history in their own manner. As the revelation of Hannah’s memories uncover a woman they can only imagine, each woman must ask how well anyone can know the inner life of another person – even someone one cherishes.
The Lost Sketchbook of Edgar Degas
Author : Harriet Scott Chessman
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,84 MB
Release : 2017-03
Category : Cousins
ISBN : 9781944853136
Book Description
A lyrical novel about what art can reveal, and a nuanced imagining of the people who influenced Edgar Degas and his work. With key roles for beloved Degas paintings.
Claude & Camille
Author : Stephanie Cowell
Publisher : Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 18,82 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Biographical fiction
ISBN : 0307463214
Book Description
A vividly rendered portrait of both the rise of Impressionism and of Monet, the artist at the center of the movement. It is, above all, a love story of the highest romantic order.
Lydia Cassatt
Author : Harriet Scott Chessman
Publisher :
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 50,62 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Artists' models
ISBN : 9780712623636
Book Description
The year is 1878. Paris is the centre of the art world, and in the heart of its thriving, vibrant community live two sisters, Mary and Lydia Cassatt. One is at the peak of her career, as the other reaches her moment of greatest frailty... Lydia Cassatt is dying of Bright's disease. Conscious of her approaching death, she contemplates the narrowing of her world with courage, openness and dignity. But for Mary, an independent, ambitious painter, life is unimaginable without her beloved sister. Torn apart by the idea of losing Lydia, Mary embarks on a series of five paintings. And as the emotional tension between the sisters rises, they become unable to avoid inevitable questions about love and passion, about life and death... Lyrical and tender, Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper is a profoundly moving, unsentimental and hugely life-affirming story of the immortality which both love and art can bestow.
The Book of Lost Light
Author : Ron Nyren
Publisher : eBookIt.com
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 33,59 MB
Release : 2020-11-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1625571127
Book Description
Joseph Kylander's childhood in early 20th century San Francisco has been shaped by his widowed father's obsessive photographic project and by his headstrong cousin Karelia's fanciful storytelling and impulsive acts. The 1906 earthquake upends their eccentric routines, and they take refuge with a capricious patron and a group of artists looking to find meaning after the disaster. THE BOOK OF LOST LIGHT explores family loyalty and betrayal, Finnish folklore, the nature of time and theater, and what it takes to recover from calamity and build a new life from the ashes.
Mary Cassatt
Author : Mary Cassatt
Publisher : Random House Value Publishing
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 37,6 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780517093559
Book Description
After Dakota
Author : Kevin Sharp
Publisher :
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 26,86 MB
Release : 2012-12-07
Category :
ISBN : 9781480263826
Book Description
1983. Newborn MTV. Cabbage Patch Kids. President Reagan. A U.S.-U.S.S.R. Cold War that threatens to go hot at any moment. Against this backdrop, three teens begin a year of change and turmoil following the sudden loss of one of their closest friends. Dakota meant different things to Cameron, Bryce, and Claire. When she disappears in a plane crash, they each have to face their own mortality, along with the secrets they still carry about her. Cameron Casey's goal for senior year of high school is to maintain his 4.0 GPA so he can escape to his dream college. Then he meets a new girl, who he comes to see as his second chance with the recently departed, a second chance he's determined not to waste. Bryce Rollins, Cameron's best friend and fellow senior, has big dreams that include being a professional artist and not going through high school dateless. When he becomes convinced he has a terminal illness, he realizes these both may be hopeless causes, the kind he does best. Claire Rollins, Bryce's sister, finds herself alone and adrift freshman year. Seemingly guided by messages from beyond the grave, she seeks solace in a boy who challenges her beliefs about life, happiness, and God. But if her mother ever found out what her little girl is up to...
A Book of Fields
Author : Stephen Billias
Publisher : Odeon Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 30,9 MB
Release : 2019-09-19
Category :
ISBN : 9781733575003
Book Description
Three kids rob a diner in Greenfield where everyone knows them. A boy goes to the Big E in West Springfield and runs away with the circus. An animal control officer has to shoot a moose in Sheffield. A ghost still roams the flooded and sunken town of Enfield. A prep school teacher in Old Deerfield reenacts the raid of 1704 with his students, to disastrous results. These deceptively simple stories share two commonalities--first, each one ends in the name of a town that ends in "field"--Ashfield, Northfield, Plainfield, and so forth. Second, most of the stories contain a crime, or something like one, but this is not a crime novel. It's an exploration of this magical landscape in the Pioneer Valley (or slightly beyond), populated not by magicians or wizards but by very real human beings; it's a portrait of a changing world and the men and women who inhabit it: hardy, independent, passionate, hardheaded, sometimes a little crazy.
