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Life studies : stories / Susan Vreeland.
Van Pelt Library PS3572.R34 L54 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vreeland, Susan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Painters--Fiction.
- Painters.
- Post-impressionism (Art).
- Impressionist artists.
- Impressionist artists--Fiction.
- Post-impressionism (Art)--Fiction.
- Biographical fiction, American.
- France--Fiction.
- France.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Biographical fiction, American.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 292 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Viking, [2005]
- Summary:
- In this collection of finely crafted historical and contemporary stories, Vreeland transports readers through time, from Paris in the 1840s, to post-World War II Venice and Rome to present-day California, allowing them to witness the inspiration behind--and in some cases the creation--of great works of art.
- Contents:
- Then. Mimi with a watering can
- Winter of abandon
- Cradle song
- Olympia's look
- The yellow jacket
- Of these stones
- A flower for Ginette
- In the absence of memory
- Interlude. The adventures of Bernardo and Salvatore, or, the cure: a tale
- Now. The things he didn't know
- Uncommon clay
- Respond
- Crayon, 1955
- At least five hundred words, with sincerity and honesty
- Gifts
- Their Lady Tristeza
- Tableaux Vivants.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0670031771
- OCLC:
- 54974511
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