I Always Loved You
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780670017195 (0670017191)
Publish date: 2014
Publisher: Viking
Pages no: 343
Edition language: English
I enjoy the Beaux Arts period of Paris, and cannot imagine how thrilling and empowering it would have been to have lived there then. I think Oliveira does a good job of depicting Paris at this time, and I enjoyed her references to places I know from my travels to this beautiful city. Her characteriz...
I have mixed feelings about this book. Upfront, it's pure fiction; other than the artists' names, their work, and the broad strokes of accomplishment, it's made up out of whole cloth. This is the part I had issues with, I guess. I don't know enough about Degas, Cassatt, Morisot and Manet, with ...
The name of this book should actually read Paint Love. I say this because those two words are the essence of this novel and because the title now, I Always Loved You is difficult for a search engine when someone is trying to remember the title. I kept typing: I Will Always Love You, I Have Always L...
Beautifully written and full of period details, this novel features American artist Mary Cassatt and her complex relationship with the talented, sometimes infuriating Edgar Degas, but the viewpoint also switches to Berthe Morisot and her brother-in-law/maybe-lover Edouard Manet, creating a broad int...
I Always Loved You is the story of the relationship between Edgar Degas and Mary Cassatt - a relationship that lasted over 40 years and ended with his death in 1917. Was it love? Was it friendship? Was it admiration? Was it a mentorship? Was it a complicated combination of all of those things? A bea...
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