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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Publication date
February 4, 2014
Pages
397
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9781594632297
ISBN-10
1594632294
Dimensions
0.85 by 5.13 by 8 in.
Weight
0.65 lbs.
Original list price
$16.00
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Girl With a Pearl Earring | The Woman Upstairs | The Perfume Collector | Longbourn | I Always Loved You | Claude & Camille | Affinity | Mary Reilly | In the Company of the Courtesan
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: A heartrending, gripping novel about two sisters in Belle Ãpoque Paris and the young woman forever immortalized as muse for Edgar Degasâ Little Dancer Aged Fourteen.
1878 Paris. Following their fatherâs 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 Ãmile Zolaâs naturalist masterpiece LâAssommoir.
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 Ãmile Abadie, must choose between honest labor and the more profitable avenues open to a young woman of the Parisian demimonde.Â
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 âcivilized society.â In the end, each will come to realize that her salvation, if not survival, lies with the other.
1878 Paris. Following their fatherâs 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 Ãmile Zolaâs naturalist masterpiece LâAssommoir.
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 Ãmile Abadie, must choose between honest labor and the more profitable avenues open to a young woman of the Parisian demimonde.Â
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 âcivilized society.â In the end, each will come to realize that her salvation, if not survival, lies with the other.
Editions
Hardcover
Large print edition from Wheeler Pub Inc (May 22, 2013)
9781410457776 | details & prices | 553 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 1.50 in. | 1.44 lbs | List price $33.99
from Riverhead Books (January 10, 2013)
9781594486241 | details & prices | 357 pages | 6.25 × 9.50 × 1.25 in. | 1.25 lbs | List price $27.95
Paperback
The price comparison is for this edition
Reprint edition from Riverhead Books (February 4, 2014)
9781594632297 | details & prices | 397 pages | 5.13 × 8.00 × 0.85 in. | 0.65 lbs | List price $16.00
About: A heartrending, gripping novel about two sisters in Belle Ãpoque Paris and the young woman forever immortalized as muse for Edgar Degasâ Little Dancer Aged Fourteen.
About: A heartrending, gripping novel about two sisters in Belle Ãpoque Paris and the young woman forever immortalized as muse for Edgar Degasâ Little Dancer Aged Fourteen.
CD/Spoken Word
With Cassandra Campbell (other contributor), Danny Campbell (other contributor), Julia Whelan (other contributor) |
Mp3 una edition from Blackstone Audio Inc (January 10, 2013)
9781470847586 | details & prices | 6.25 × 4.50 × 0.75 in. | 0.20 lbs | List price $29.95
Prebinding
Reprint edition from Turtleback Books (February 4, 2014)
9780606351478 | details & prices | 397 pages | 5.25 × 8.25 × 1.25 in. | 0.82 lbs | List price $28.20
About: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.
About: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.
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