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The marriage of opposites : a novel based on the life of Rachel Pizzarro / Alice Hoffman.
"A forbidden love story set on the tropical island of St. Thomas about the extraordinary woman who gave birth to painter Camille Pissarro, the Father of Impressionism"-- Provided by publisher.
Growing up on idyllic St. Thomas in the early 1800s, Rachel dreams of life in faraway Paris. Instead she is married off to a widower with three children to save her father's business. When her husband dies suddenly and his handsome, much younger nephew, Frédérick, arrives from France to settle the estate, Rachel seizes her own life story. They begin a defiant, passionate love affair that sparks a scandal that affects all of her family, including her favorite son, who will become one of the greatest artists of France.
Item details
- ISBN: 9781451693591 (hardback)
- ISBN: 1451693591 (hardback)
- ISBN: 9781451693607 (trade paperback)
- ISBN: 1451693605 (trade paperback)
- Physical Description: 369 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2015.
- Copyright: ©2015
Contents / Notes
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliography (page 369). |
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| Genre: | Love stories. Historical fiction. Romance fiction Historical fiction. |
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| Conyers-Rockdale Library System: Nancy Guinn Memorial Library |
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