The year is 1878. Paris is the centre of the art world, and in the heart of its thriving, vibrant community live two sisters, Mary and Lydia Cassatt. One is at the peak of her career, as the other reaches her moment of greatest frailty...Lydia Cassatt is dying of Bright's disease. Conscious of her approaching death, she contemplates the narrowing of her world with courage, openness and dignity. But for Mary, an independent, ambitious painter, life is unimaginable without her beloved sister. Torn apart by the idea of losing Lydia, Mary embarks on a series of five paintings. And as the emotional tension between the sisters rises, they become unable to avoid inevitable questions about love and passion, about life and death...Lyrical and tender, Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper is a profoundly moving, unsentimental and hugely life-affirming story of the immortality which both love and art can bestow.
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Review:
‘Lovely. Chessman beautifully captures the rich relationship between model and painter and between sisters’ -- Tracy Chevalier
From the Publisher:
An unforgettable novel in the bestselling tradition of Girl with a Pearl Earring
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- PublisherCentury
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0712623639
- ISBN 13 9780712623636
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages176
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