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The Age of Light: A Novel

Autor Whitney Scharer Therese Plummer
en Limba Engleză CD-Audio – 12 feb 2019
"Sweeping from the glamour of 1930's Paris through the battlefields of World War II and into the war's long shadow,The Age of Lightis a startlingly modern love story and a mesmerizing portrait of a woman's self-transformation from muse into artist."--Celeste Ng,New York Timesbestselling author ofLittle Fires Everywhere

She went to Paris to start over, to make art instead of being made into it.

A captivating debut novel by Whitney Scharer,The Age of Lighttells the story ofVoguemodel turned renowned photographer Lee Miller, and her search to forge a new identity as an artist after a life spent as a muse. "I'd rather take a photograph than be one," she declares after she arrives in Paris in 1929, where she soon catches the eye of the famous Surrealist Man Ray. Though he wants to use her only as a model, Lee convinces him to take her on as his assistant and teach her everything he knows. But Man Ray turns out to be an egotistical, charismatic force, and as they work together in the darkroom, their personal and professional lives become intimately entwined, changing the course of Lee's life forever.
Lee's journey takes us from the cabarets of bohemian Paris to the battlefields of war-torn Europe during WWII, from discovering radical new photography techniques to documenting the liberation of the concentration camps as one of the first female war correspondents. Through it all, Lee must grapple with the question of whether it's possible to reconcile romantic desire with artistic ambition-and what she will have to sacrifice to do so.

Told in interweaving timelines, this sensuous, richly detailed novel brings Lee Miller-a brilliant and pioneering artist-out of the shadows of a man's legacy and into the light.


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ISBN-13: 9781549173424
ISBN-10: 1549173421
Dimensiuni: 133 x 146 x 41 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Ediția:Completă
Editura: HACHETTE AUDIO
Colecția Little, Brown & Company

Notă biografică

Whitney Scharer earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Washington, and her short fiction has appeared in theBellevue Literary Review, Cimarron Review, and other journals. She's received an Emerging Artist Award in Literature from the St. Botolph Club Foundation, a Somerville Arts Council Artists grant, and been awarded a residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.The Age of Lightis her first novel.

Recenzii

Named a most anticipated book of 2019 byOprah.com,Entertainment Weekly,Southern Living,Woman's Day, andPop Sugar
"Scharer's debut is a rivetingly sexy snapshot of the duo's real-life relationship as it morphs from apprenticeship to partnership to tumultuous love affair."
Kim Hubbard,People
"She joins suchnovelists as Paula McLain ("The Paris Wife") and Rupert Thomson ("Never Anyonebut You") in a most worthy enterprise: repopulating male-dominated accounts ofthe past with the many noteworthy women who deserve the same limelight."—Donna Rikfind,Washington Post
"Scharer...skillfullyrenders an electric version of the city, pulling the reader into the opulenceand mystery of the era."—Annabel Gutterman,Time
"historical fictionat its finest."—Leah Greenblatt,Entertainment Weekly
"An absolutely gorgeous and feminist novel about art, love, and ownership,The Age of Lightis truly a work of art in itself, both deeply moving and thrilling. Want to know what it's like to be an artist? Read this astonishing novel and then, like Lee Miller, take time to consider the extraordinary cost she paid to be herself."—Caroline Leavitt,Boston Globe
"Is "woman behavesdangerously, lives wildly" a genre? If so, The Age of Light is its latestposter child. The novel is work of historical fiction about Lee Miller, a Voguemodel who became one of the first female war correspondents. In Scharer's plot,Miller travels to Paris where she meets photographer Man Ray, who becomes hercollaborator and lover. While most stories about Miller paint her as Ray'smuse, this one portrays her as the independent and daring artist she trulywas."—Glamour
Scharer's debut isboth engrossing and cinematic, a must for readers who enjoy a fictional peekinto the lives of real-life artists.—Library Journal
"Scharer sets herviewfinder selectively, focusing on her heroine's insecurities as much as heraccomplishments as an artist; her hunger to be more than "a neck to holdpearls, a slim waist to show off a belt" is contrasted with her habit ofsolving problems by simply leaving. The price for Lee is steep, but it makesfor irresistible reading. Sexy and moving."—Kirkus,starred review
"Scharer's intoxicating first novel...bring[s] a stunning chiaroscuro effect to the saga of a woman transforming herself into an artist."—Booklist,starred review
"Scharer's stellar debut chronicles the tumultuous workingand romantic relationships of photographer Man Ray andmodel-turned-photographer Lee Miller in early 1930s Paris...This brilliantportrayal of the complicated couple features a page-turning story andthrillingly depicts the artistic process."—Publishers Weekly,starred review
"Rapturous and razor sharp allat once,The Age of Lightfearlessly unzips anything we might know ofLee Miller as model and muse and recasts her as artist, free thinker andarchitect of a singular and unapologetic life. Whitney Scharer is a stunningnew discovery. This novel sparks on every page."—Paula McLain,New York Timesbestselling author ofThe Paris WifeandLove and Ruin
"WhitneyScharer's storytelling is utterly immersive and gorgeous in its details,transporting you into Lee Miller's life, and her struggles to be takenseriously in a man's world. This is a powerful, sensual and gripping portraitof the forging of an artist's soul."—Madeline Miller, #1New York Timesbestselling author ofCirceandSong of Achilles
"Inincandescent prose, Whitney Scharer has created an unforgettable heroinediscovering her passion, her independence, and her art-and what she mustsacrifice to have them. Sweeping from the glamour of 1920s Paris through thebattlefields of World War II and into the war's long shadow,The Age ofLightis a startlingly modern love story and a mesmerizing portraitof a woman's self-transformation from muse into artist."—Celeste Ng,New York Timesbestselling author ofLittle Fires Everywhere
"Anextraordinary young woman discovers love and art and betrayal among the artistsof 1930s Paris and documents the horrors of war through her singular cameralens. An uplifting, heartbreaking and altogether immersive read."—Helen Simonson,New York Timesbestselling author ofThe Summer Before the WarandMajor Pettigrew's Last Stand
"TheAge of Lightis a bold, intimate and gorgeous novel-at once a vivid rompthrough the salons and parties of the Paris art world in the 1930s and abreathtaking close up of a woman battling to be both muse and artist, lover andcollaborator, and above all, herself. This is a relevant, utterly enthrallingdebut from a talented writer who understands the complex intersection ofambition and femininity. I was swept off my feet."—Jessica Shattuck,New York Timesbestselling author ofThe Woman in the CastleandThe Hazards of Good Breeding
"WhenI first readThe Age of Light, I thought it might have been writtenexpressly for me, since it has everything I love in it: photography, sex, love,war, 1920s Paris, a relationship struggle between two artists, a woman'sjourney from model to photographer, and the most exquisite writing.Then I realized: this magnetic, addictive novel will beguileeveryreader.Read it, read it!"—Jenna Blum,New York Timesbestselling author ofThose Who Save UsandThe Lost Family
"A masterpiece,The Age of Lightis asearing, evocative novel of love and war, and a woman's fierce determination totranscend her role as muse and remake the world through her own art. WhitneyScharer is a remarkably gifted storyteller - a major new voice in historical fiction."—Dawn Tripp, bestselling author ofGeorgiaandGame of Secrets
"Scharer's scrupulous research and dazzling prose fuse tocreate a captivating portrait of the little-known - but now unforgettable - LeeMiller, whose exceptional beauty, bold conviction, and raretalent disrupted the male-centric art scene of 1920's Paris."—Georgia Hunter,New York Timesbestselling author ofWe Were the Lucky Ones