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What Disappears.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Quick, Barbara.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sisters.
- Ballet.
- Paris (France)--History--1870-1940--Fiction.
- Paris (France).
- Genre:
- Historical fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (209 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : Regal House Publishing, 2022.
- Summary:
- "What Disappears is a gripping multi-generational tale that begins in Tsarist Russia in the late 19th century and ends in Paris with the start of the First World War. Jeannette Dupres, one of two identical twins born to a Jewish family in dire political and financial straits, is spirited away as an infant by a Catholic family in France. The other twin, Sonya Luria, who was told her sister died at birth, has her life upended by the 1903 pogrom in Kishinev. The sisters are reunited in the doorway of Anna Pavlova's dressing-room, when they both get jobs in Paris with Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, Sonya as a seamstress and Jeannette as an extra ballerina. In a relationship that ebbs and flows as it evolves, the twins' deepest, darkest secrets and dearest hopes are revealed, affecting not only them but also leaving their mark on the lives and fates of Sonya's three daughters. Peopled by the greatest dancers, artists, writers, designers, and trend-setters of the Belle Époque, WHAT DISAPPEARS explores the ways in which girls and women define their identity and search for meaning in a world that tries at every turn to hold them back"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Praise for What Disappears
- What Disappears
- Copyright © 2022 Barbara Quick. All rights reserved.
- Dedication
- Quote
- Part I
- Paris
- Kishinev
- en route from France, and in Kishinev
- Nantes
- Kishinev to Saint Petersburg
- Saint Petersburg
- Part II
- Monte Carlo
- Part III
- Part IV
- Part V
- Paris
- Paris
- Aboard the RMS Avon
- off the coast of Buenos Aires
- Part VI
- Part VII
- Part VIII
- Buenos Aires
- Glossary
- Acknowledgments
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-64603-100-8
- OCLC:
- 1263026726
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