THE MUSE - A NOVEL

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"Love, war, desire, and art--it's all here." -- Elle Two Women. Two Eras. One painting that ties them together. July 1967, Mayfair, London--a painting is left propped on the doorstep of the Skeleton Gallery, discovered by Odelle Bastien, a Caribbean emigre trying to make her way in London. The painting is rumored to be the work of Isaac Robles, whose mysterious death has confounded the art world for decades. The excitement over the painting is only matched by the tension around the conflicting stories of its discovery. Odelle is unsure who or what to believe as she is drawn into a complex web of secrets and deceptions. Thirty years earlier, Olive Schloss, the daughter of a Viennese Jewish art dealer, follows her parents to a village in southern Spain that is rife with unrest. It is here Olive meets María Teresita, the young housekeeper, and María's half-brother Isaac Robles, an ambitious painter newly returned from the Barcelona salons. The illegitimate offspring of the local landowner, neither sibling has anything to lose when by exploiting these new guests in their poverty-stricken town. As they insinuate themselves into the family, the consequences are devastating and echo into the decades to come. In vividly rendered detail, acclaimed author Jessie Burton spins a tale of desire, ambition, and the ways in which the tides of history inevitably shape and define our lives.


  • Auteur(s)

    Jessie Burton

  • Éditeur

    Ecco Press

  • Distributeur

    Olf

  • Date de parution

    16/05/2017

  • EAN

    9780062409935

  • Disponibilité

    Disponible

  • Nombre de pages

    416 Pages

  • Longueur

    20 cm

  • Largeur

    13 cm

  • Épaisseur

    2.5 cm

  • Poids

    309 g

  • Support principal

    Poche

Jessie Burton

Jessie Burton est née à Londres en 1982 et a étudié à Oxford. Elle est l'autrice du best-seller Miniaturiste vendu à des millions d'exemplaires à travers le monde, et de Les filles au lion. Elle a publié en 2019 son premier ouvrage jeunesse, Douze princesses rebelles (Gallimard Jeunesse).

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