The Marriage of Opposites
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- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
1 September 2016
Summary
From the bestselling author of The Dovekeepers comes a love story about one of history’s most captivating ‘invisible’ women: Rachel, the mother of Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro.
Growing up on the idyllic island of St Thomas in the early 1800s, Rachel dreams of life in faraway Paris. Rachel’s mother, a pillar of their tight-knit refugee community of Jews who escaped the European Inquisition, has never forgiven her daughter for refusing to live by the rules. But Rachel’s fate i…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781471112119 |
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| ISBN-10: | 147111211X |
| Author: | Alice Hoffman |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Imprint: | Scribner UK |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2016 |
| Weight: | 280g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm |
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‘What is it that makes American authors excel at depicting marriage? Alice Hoffman’s The Marriage of Opposites is one of the best novels on the subject … not least because the opposites of its title embrace not just gender but race, class and religion … Hoffman’s sensuous prose is ideally suited to describing the landscape … As intoxicating as the finest island rum’ * Independent on The Marriage of Opposites *
‘Hoffman is a master of evocatively described places … This captivating novel transports the reader to a sensual world of lush tropical landscapes, colonial opulence and conflicted passions’ * The Lady on The Marriage of Opposites *
‘Alice Hoffman’s fictionalised biography of Rachel Pizzarro’s life is an evocative, sensitive and historically rich portrayal of a woman living ahead of her time’ * The Observer on The Marriage of Opposites *
About The Author
Alice Hoffman
Alice Hoffman is the author of thirty works of fiction, including Practical Magic, The Red Garden, The Dovekeepers, and, most recently, The Museum of Extraordinary Things. She lives in Boston.
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