The marriage of opposites / Alice Hoffman.
Publication details: London : Scribner, 2015.Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover editionDescription: 369 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 1471112101
- 9781471112102
- Pissarro, Camille, 1830-1903 -- Family -- Fiction
- Love stories
- FICTION / Jewish
- FICTION / Historical
- Widows -- Fiction
- FICTION / Literary
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- Families -- Fiction
- Saint Thomas (United States Virgin Islands : Island) -- Fiction
- Saint Thomas (United States Virgin Islands) -- Fiction
- 813/.54 23
- PS3558.O3447 M37 2015
- FIC019000 | FIC014000 | FIC046000
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | HOF | Available | 059268 |
Includes bibliographical references.
Growing up on the idyllic island of St Thomas in the early 1800s, Rachel dreams of life in faraway Paris. Rachel's mother, a pillar of their tight-knit refugee community of Jews who escaped the European Inquisition, has never forgiven her daughter for refusing to live by the rules. But Rachel's fate is not in her own hands: in order to secure the future of her father's business, she is married off to a widower with three children. When her husband dies suddenly and his handsome nephew Frederic arrives from France to settle the estate, Rachel seizes control of her life, beginning a defiant, passionate love affair that sparks a scandal affecting her entire family, including her favourite son, Camille Pissarro, who will one day become a founder member of the Impressionists and one of history's greatest artists.