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Susan Vreeland
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Vreeland (Luncheon of the Boating Party) again excavates the life behind a famous artistic creation--in this case the Tiffany leaded-glass lamp, the brainchild not of Louis Comfort Tiffany but his glass studio manager, Clara Driscoll. Tiffany staffs his studio with female artisans--a decision that protects him from strikes by the all-male union--but refuses to employ women who are married. Lucky for him, Clara's romantic misfortunes--her husband's...
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Renoir is inspired to paint "Luncheon of the boating party" when his other work is criticized by Emile Zole, and while doing so is drawn into lives of the thirteen people featured in it as they enjoy a Parisian summer during the late 1800s.
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Eight linked stories tracing the history of a painting by the 17th century Dutch artist, Vermeer. In one, he paints his daughter to pay off debts, a second story describes the loss of the ownership papers, a third takes place on the eve of its theft by the Nazis. By the author of What Love Sees.
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Since the Publication of Her First Novel, the New York Times bestselling Girl in Hyacinth Blue, and its sumptuous follow-up, The Passion of Artemisia, Susan Vreeland has dazzled fans all over the globe, with her books' having been translated into nearly twenty different languages. In The Forest Lover, she transports readers yet again to another gorgeous time and place -- the lush, untamed British Columbian Coast at the turn of the twentieth century...
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