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Pale morning light with Violet Swan : a novel of a life in art / Deborah Reed.
Van Pelt Library PS3602.R3885 P35 2020
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reed, Deborah, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Older women--Fiction.
- Older women.
- Generations.
- Women painters--Fiction.
- Women painters.
- Painters--Fiction.
- Painters.
- Secrecy--Fiction.
- Secrecy.
- Earthquakes--Fiction.
- Earthquakes.
- Generations--Fiction.
- World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Oregon--Fiction.
- Oregon.
- Georgia--Fiction.
- Georgia.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 305 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020.
- Summary:
- "Ninety-five-year-old Violet Swan has spent a lifetime translating tragedy and hardship into art, becoming famous for her abstract paintings, which evoke tranquility, innocence, and joy. For nearly a century Violet has lived a peaceful, private life of painting on the coast of Oregon. The "business of Violet" is run by her only child, Francisco, and his wife, Penny. But shortly before Violet's death, an earthquake sets a series of events in motion, and her deeply hidden past begins to resurface. When her beloved grandson returns home with a family secret in tow, Violet is forced to come to terms with the life she left behind so long ago - a life her family knows nothing about. A generational saga set against the backdrop of twentieth-century America and into the present day, Violet Swan is the story of a girl who escaped rural Georgia at fourteen during World War II, crossing the country alone and with no money. It is the story of how that girl met the man who would become her devoted husband, how she became a celebrated artist, and above all, how her life, inspired by nothing more than the way she imagines it to be, will turn out to be her greatest masterpiece."--Provided by publisher.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Reed, Deborah, Pale morning light with Violet Swan
- ISBN:
- 9780544817364
- 0544817362
- 9780358308973
- 0358308976
- 9780358311829
- 0358311829
- OCLC:
- 1125303176
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