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Paris red : a novel / Maureen Gibbon.
Van Pelt Library PS3557.I139167 P37 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gibbon, Maureen, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Meurent, Victorine--Fiction.
- Meurent, Victorine.
- Manet, Édouard, 1832-1883--Fiction.
- Manet, Édouard.
- Manet, Édouard, 1832-1883.
- Painters--France--Paris--Fiction.
- Painters.
- Artists' models--Fiction.
- Artists' models.
- France--Paris.
- Paris (France)--History--1848-1870--Fiction.
- Paris (France).
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Biographical fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 282 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2015]
- Summary:
- "At seventeen, Victorine Meurent abandons her old life to become immersed in the Parisian society of dance halls and cafés, meeting writers and artists like Baudelaire and Alfred Stevens. As Manet's model, Victorine explores a world of new possibilities and stirs the artist to push the boundaries of painting in his infamous portrait Olympia, which scandalizes even the most cosmopolitan city"--Dust jacket flap.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780393244465
- 0393244466
- OCLC:
- 893557621
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