Hare with Amber Eyes A Family's Century of Art and Loss

Name: Hare with Amber Eyes A Family's Century of Art and Loss
Price: 3.54 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780374105976

ISBN-10: 0374105979

ISBN-13: 9780374105976

Edition: N/A

Authors: Edmund De Waal

List price: $26.00

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Marketplace

5 new & used from $3.54

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

In the 1870s, Charles Ephrussi assembled a collection of 360 Japanese ivory carvings known as netsuke, some comical and some erotic, none of them larger than a matchbox. The scion of a rich, respected banking family that "burned like a comet" in Parisian and Viennese society, Ephrussi was an early supporter of the impressionists; Marcel Proust was briefly his secretary and used him as the model for the aesthete and lover Swann inRemembrance of Things Past. The Holocaust swept Ephrussi and his glorious, cosmopolitan family into oblivion, and almost the only thing that would remain of their vast empire was the netsuke collection, smuggled out of their Vienna palace (now occupied by Hitler's…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 8/31/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English