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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Muse: A Novel (originale 2016; edizione 2017)di Jessie Burton (Autore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. An extraordinary story, several worthy characters - all women - written with excellence & grace. ( ) This book is a mystery involving two time periods, London in 1967 and Spain in 1936, linked together by a painting. The history of the painting is interesting, especially for someone who enjoys art and the process of creating it. The descriptions of London and Malaga are educational and believable as historical settings. The characters are well-crafted. There are a number of secrets kept by the characters, which are gradually revealed, and enough twists to not be given away too soon. Recommended to art enthusiasts and readers of historical fiction. The Muse started off really good but lost a bit of my interest towards the middle of the book. Mainly because I found the story in 1936 not as interesting as the one in 1967. Odelle Bastien I found was a much more interesting character to follow than Olive Schloss. Also, I found myself pretty annoyed with the actions of Olive och Teresa. However, the book had a nice twist towards the end. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Appartiene alle Collane EditorialiGallimard, Folio (6499) Premi e riconoscimentiElenchi di rilievo
Fiction.
Literature.
Thriller.
Historical Fiction.
HTML: From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Miniaturist comes a captivating and brilliantly realized story of two young womenâ??a Caribbean immigrant in 1960s London, and a bohemian woman in 1930s Spainâ??and the powerful mystery that ties them together. England, 1967. Odelle Bastien is a Caribbean émigré trying to make her way in London. When she starts working at the prestigious Skelton Institute of Art, she discovers a painting rumored to be the work of Isaac Robles, a young artist of immense talent and vision whose mysterious death has confounded the art world for decades. The excitement over the painting is matched by the intrigue around the conflicting stories of its discovery. Drawn into a complex web of secrets and deceptions, Odelle does not know what to believe or who she can trust, including her mesmerizing colleague, Marjorie Quick. Spain, 1936. Olive Schloss, the daughter of a Viennese Jewish art dealer and an English heiress, follows her parents to Arazuelo, a poor, restless village on the southern coast. She grows close to Teresa, a young housekeeper, and Teresa's half-brother, Isaac Robles, an idealistic and ambitious painter newly returned from the Barcelona salons. A dilettante buoyed by the revolutionary fervor that will soon erupt into civil war, Isaac dreams of being a painter as famous as his countryman Picasso. Raised in poverty, these illegitimate children of the local landowner revel in exploiting the wealthy Anglo-Austrians. Insinuating themselves into the Schloss family's lives, Teresa and Isaac help Olive conceal her artistic talents with devastating consequences that will echo into the decades to come. Rendered in exquisite detail, The Muse is a passionate and enthralling tale of desire, ambition, and the ways in which the tides of history inevitably shape and define our l Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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