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The marriage of opposites : a novel [based on the life of Rachel Pizzarro] / Alice Hoffman.
Van Pelt Library PS3558.O3447 M37 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hoffman, Alice.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pissarro, Camille, 1830-1903--Family--Fiction.
- Pissarro, Camille.
- Pissarro, Camille, 1830-1903.
- Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Families.
- Saint Thomas (United States Virgin Islands : Island)--Fiction.
- Saint Thomas (United States Virgin Islands : Island).
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Love stories.
- Historical fiction.
- Romance fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 369 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Simon & Schuster, 2015.
- Summary:
- "A forbidden love story set on the tropical island of St. Thomas about the extraordinary woman who gave birth to painter Camille Pissarro, the Father of Impressionism"-- Provided by publisher.
- Growing up on idyllic St. Thomas in the early 1800s, Rachel dreams of life in faraway Paris. Instead she is married off to a widower with three children to save her father's business. When her husband dies suddenly and his handsome, much younger nephew, Frédérick, arrives from France to settle the estate, Rachel seizes her own life story. They begin a defiant, passionate love affair that sparks a scandal that affects all of her family, including her favorite son, who will become one of the greatest artists of France.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliography (page 369).
- ISBN:
- 9781451693591
- 1451693591
- 9781451693607
- 1451693605
- OCLC:
- 898433090
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