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Barcode37821002542948
LocationMarshall District
TitleThe lost masterpiece / B. A. Shapiro.
AuthorShapiro, Barbara A., 1951- author.
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CollectionAdult New Arrivals

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International Standard Book Number 9781643756370
International Standard Book Number 1643756370
Dewey Decimal Classification Number 813
Personal Name Shapiro, Barbara A., 1951- author.
Title Statement The lost masterpiece / B. A. Shapiro.
Imprint New York : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill/Little, Brown and Company, 2025.
Physical Description 439 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary, Etc. In a gripping novel full of plot twists, B. A. Shapiro embeds us in a circle of famous painters in late-nineteenth-century Paris, centering on the anguished Impressionist artist Berthe Morisot—the one woman in their midst who never got her due—and the story of Morisot’s great-great-great-great granddaughter, Tamara Rubin, who has inherited Édouard Manet’s Party on the Seine, a painting that completely upends her life. When Tamara inherits Party, she discovers a long-hidden family history replete with unanswered questions: How had it been stolen by the Nazis? How had the painting managed to survive three disasters that destroyed every other artwork around it? And most of all, why had she never known about her ancestor, Berthe Morisot? As the painting begins to metamorphose into darker and more terrifying versions of itself, Tamara’s ordinary life is thrown into turmoil. What wounds and resentments plagued Morisot, and to what lengths will her spirit go for revenge? The Lost Masterpiece is a story of love, adultery, betrayal, family secrets, and the grueling birth of Impressionism, taking the reader on a whirlwind adventure from the streets of Paris in the late 1800s and the studio Berthe Morisot shared with Manet, Degas, and Renoir to the present day. Shapiro brings Berthe’s world to life, tracing her work through generations of descendants and introducing us to a painter as brilliant and original as her male counterparts across 150 years of triumphs, struggles, passions, animosities, and malevolence.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Family secrets Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Inheritance and succession Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Women artists Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Art thefts Germany History 20th century Fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Historical fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Psychological fiction.

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