Gwen
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2.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $18.99
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- $18.99
Publisher Description
In 1903, the artist Gwendolen Mary John travels from London to France with her companion Dorelia. Surviving on their wits and Gwen's raw talent, the young women walk from Calais to Paris. In the new century, the world is full of promise: it is time for Gwen to step out from the shadow of her overbearing brother Augustus and seek out the great painter and sculptor Auguste Rodin. It is time to be brave and visible, to love and be loved – and time perhaps to become a hero as the stain of anti-Semitism spreads across Europe.
Customer Reviews
Gwen
This is an amazingly complex and often puzzling book. There are times when the fiction seems more real than the history, times when the 'facts' are only believable because the writer has given us a setting in which anything can, and did, happen. Fascinating.
Elaine Forrestal