Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper Paperback - 2002
by Harriet Scott Chessman
- Used
- Paperback
Readers will be transported to the vibrant art scene of late nineteenth-century Paris in this richly textured portrait of the relationship between Mary Cassatt and her sister Lydia.
Beginning in the autumn of 1878, Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper dreams its way into the intimate world of Cassatt's older sibling. Told in the reflective, lyrical voice of Lydia, who is dying of Bright's disease, the novel opens a window onto the extraordinary age in which these sisters lived, painting its sweeping narrative canvas with fascinating real-life figures that include Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Edgar Degas, Cassatt's brilliant, subversive mentor.
Featuring five full-color plates of Cassatt's paintings, this is a moving and illuminating exploration of the illusive nature of art and desire, memory and mortality, romantic and familial love.
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Details
- Title Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper
- Author Harriet Scott Chessman
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1ST
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 164
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Plume, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date October 2002
- Bookseller's Inventory # 241914
- ISBN 9780452283503 / 0452283507
- Weight 0.41 lbs (0.19 kg)
- Dimensions 6.96 x 5.3 x 0.52 in (17.68 x 13.46 x 1.32 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Biographical fiction, Sisters
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
