The Marriage of Opposites
by:
Alice Hoffman (author)
“A luminous, Marquez-esque tale” (O, The Oprah Magazine) from the New York Times bestselling author of The Museum of Extraordinary Things: a forbidden love story set on a tropical island about the extraordinary woman who gave birth to painter Camille Pissarro—the Father of Impressionism.Growing...
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“A luminous, Marquez-esque tale” (O, The Oprah Magazine) from the New York Times bestselling author of The Museum of Extraordinary Things: a forbidden love story set on a tropical island about the extraordinary woman who gave birth to painter Camille Pissarro—the Father of Impressionism.Growing up on idyllic St. Thomas in the early 1800s, Rachel dreams of life in faraway P
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781451693614 (1451693613)
ASIN: B00P434ELO
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
My first Novel by Alice Hoffman and what a beautiful read it was.The Marriage of Opposites is one of those books that just draws you in with its seductive prose, Characters that are interesting and while some are based on real people others are figures of the author's imagination and what an imagin...
The Secret Wisdom of the Earth, Christopher Scotton, Robert Petkoff, narrator Although there are many themes in this novel, homophobia, the environment, an array of human emotions, devotion, life and death, good and evil, it really works because it is also a story about a grandfather and a grandson,...
The Marriage of Opposites, Alice Hofffman, Gloria Reuben, Narrator, Tina Benko, Narrator, Santino Fontana, narrator, Alice Hoffman, narrates the afterword. This novel is about the history of the Pissarro family. It takes place on Charlotte, Amalie, St. Thomas, in the early 1800’s, when it was unde...
A special thank you to Simon & Schuster and NetGalley for an advanced reader copy in exchange for an honest review. I fell in love with the synopsis the moment I read it, but since I didn’t finish The Museum of Extraordinary Things, I was concerned that I’d be disappointed. I almost didn’t request...
The Marriage of Opposites is a masterfully written story that submerges the reader into the beautiful setting, with the heat of the tropical St. Thomas sun, the wonder of the sea, and beauty of the jungle. It also completely engages the reader into the joys and heartaches of not just Rachel Pizzarro...
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