The marriage of opposites : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 1442385804 :
- ISBN: 9781442385801 :
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Physical Description:
11 audio discs (approximately 14 hr.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.
sound disc - Publisher: [New York] : Simon & Schuster, [2015]
- Copyright: ©2015
Content descriptions
General Note: | Unabridged. Subtitle from container. Compact discs. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Gloria Reuben, Tina Benko and Santino Fontana, with an afterword read by the author. |
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Genre: | Historical fiction. Romance fiction. Audiobooks. Historical fiction. Love stories. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Homer Public Library | CD HOFFMAN (Text) | 000128398 | Audio -- Fiction | Available | - |
The Marriage of Opposites
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Summary
The Marriage of Opposites
"A luminous, Marquez-esque tale" ( O, The Oprah Magazine ) from the New York Times bestselling author of The Museum of Extraordinary Things a forbidden love story set on a tropical island about the extraordinary woman who gave birth to painter Camille Pissarro--the Father of Impressionism. Growing up on idyllic St. Thomas in the early 1800s, Rachel dreams of life in faraway Paris. Rachel's mother, a pillar of their small refugee community of Jews who escaped the Inquisition, has never forgiven her daughter for being a difficult girl who refuses to live by the rules. Growing up, Rachel's salvation is their maid Adelle's belief in her strengths, and her deep, life-long friendship with Jestine, Adelle's daughter. But Rachel's life is not her own. She is married off to a widower with three children to save her father's business. When her older husband dies suddenly and his handsome, much younger nephew, Fr d rick, arrives from France to settle the estate, Rachel seizes her own life story, beginning a defiant, passionate love affair that sparks a scandal that affects all of her family, including her favorite son, who will become one of the greatest artists of France. "A work of art" ( Dallas Morning News ), The Marriage of Opposites showcases the beloved, bestselling Alice Hoffman at the height of her considerable powers. "Her lush, seductive prose, and heart-pounding subject...make this latest skinny-dip in enchanted realism...the Platonic ideal of the beach read" (Slate.com). Once forgotten to history, the marriage of Rachel and Fr d rick "will only renew your commitment to Hoffman's astonishing storytelling" ( USA TODAY ).