Donna M. Lucey

Sargent's Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Selection

[Lucey] delivers the goods, disclosing the unhappy or colorful lives that Sargent sometimes hinted at but didn't spell out.Boston Globe

In this seductive, multilayered biography, based on original letters and diaries, Donna M. Lucey illuminates four extraordinary women painted by the iconic high-society portraitist John Singer Sargent. With uncanny intuition, Sargent hinted at the mysteries and passions that unfolded in his subjects' lives. These women inhabited a rarefied world of wealth and strict conventionsyet all of them did something unexpected, something shocking, to upend society's rules.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780393634785
• Artikelnr.: 59589003

Autorenporträt

Donna M. Lucey is the author of the New York Times best-selling Archie and Amélie and other books, the recipient of two National Endowment for the Humanities grants, and a 2017 writer-in-residence at Edith Wharton's The Mount. The media editor at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, she lives in Charlottesville.