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The Painted Girls

by Cathy Marie Buchanan
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Parisian sisters navigate 1878 art scene, survival.

"The Painted Girls" is a captivating historical novel that transports readers to Belle epoque Paris and the lives of two sisters struggling to survive. With richly imagined characters and vivid descriptions of the artistic and cultural changes happening in the city, readers will find themselves fully immersed in the world Buchanan has created. The sisters' loyalty to each other in the face of the darker side of society is heartwarming and inspiring, and the historical context adds depth and complexity to their story. Highly recommended for fans of historical fiction and sisterhood tales.

  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction (2013)
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The Painted Girls

by Cathy Marie Buchanan
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ISBN: 9781594486241
Authors: Cathy Marie Buchanan
Publisher: Riverhead books/Penguin USA
Date of Publication: 2013-01-10
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Historical Fiction
Goodreads rating: 3.61
(rated by 35622 readers)

Description

1878 Paris. Following their father's sudden death, the van Goethem sisters find their lives upended. Without his wages, and with the small amount their laundress mother earns disappearing into the absinthe bottle, eviction from their lodgings seems imminent. With few options for work, Marie is dispatched to the Paris Opéra, where for a scant seventeen francs a week, she will be trained to enter the famous ballet. Her older sister, Antoinette, finds work as an extra in a stage adaptation of Émile Zola's naturalist masterpiece L'Assommoir. Marie throws herself into dance and is soon modeling in the studio of Edgar Degas, where her image will forever be immortalized as Little Dancer Aged Fourteen. There she meets a wealthy male patron of the ballet, but might the assistance he offers come with strings attached? Meanwhile Antoinette, derailed by her love for the dangerous Émile Abadie, must choose between honest labor and the more profitable avenues open to a young woman of the Parisian demimonde. Set at a moment of profound artistic, cultural, and societal change, The Painted Girls is a tale of two remarkable sisters rendered uniquely vulnerable to the darker impulses of "civilized society." In the end, each will come to realize that her salvation, if not survival, lies with the other.
 

Parisian sisters navigate 1878 art scene, survival.

"The Painted Girls" is a captivating historical novel that transports readers to Belle epoque Paris and the lives of two sisters struggling to survive. With richly imagined characters and vivid descriptions of the artistic and cultural changes happening in the city, readers will find themselves fully immersed in the world Buchanan has created. The sisters' loyalty to each other in the face of the darker side of society is heartwarming and inspiring, and the historical context adds depth and complexity to their story. Highly recommended for fans of historical fiction and sisterhood tales.

  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction (2013)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.