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Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper

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ISBN-10: 0452283507

ISBN-13: 9780452283503

Edition: N/A

Authors: Harriet Scott Chessman

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Readers will be transported to the vibrant art scene of late nineteenth-century Paris in this richly textured portrait of the relationship between Mary Cassatt and her sister Lydia. Beginning in the autumn of 1878, Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paperdreams its way into the intimate world of Cassatt's older sibling. Told in the reflective, lyrical voice of Lydia, who is dying of Bright's disease, the novel opens a window onto the extraordinary age in which these sisters lived, painting its sweeping narrative canvas with fascinating real-life figures that include Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Edgar Degas, Cassatt's brilliant, subversive mentor. Featuring five full-color plates of…    
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Book details

List price: $13.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/29/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 5.00" wide x 6.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English