Jeanne Mackin
Paperback | Pages: 384 pages Rating: 3.83 | 2306 Users | 260 Reviews
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| ISBN: | 0451465822 (ISBN13: 9780451465825) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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From Paris in the 1920s to London after the Blitz, two women find that a secret from their past reverberates through years of joy and sorrow ...As recovery from World War II begins, expat American Nora Tours travels from her home in southern France to London in search of her missing sixteen-year-old daughter. There, she unexpectedly meets up with an old acquaintance, famous model-turned-photographer Lee Miller. Neither has emerged from the war unscathed. Nora is racked with the fear that her efforts to survive under the Vichy regime may have cost her daughter’s life. Lee suffers from what she witnessed as a war correspondent photographing the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps.
Nora and Lee knew each other in the heady days of late 1920s Paris, when Nora was giddy with love for her childhood sweetheart, Lee became the celebrated mistress of the artist Man Ray, and Lee’s magnetic beauty drew them all into the glamorous lives of famous artists and their wealthy patrons. But Lee fails to realize that her friendship with Nora is even older, that it goes back to their days as children in Poughkeepsie, New York, when a devastating trauma marked Lee forever. Will Nora’s reunion with Lee give them a chance to forgive past betrayals…and break years of silence to forge a meaningful connection as women who have shared the best and the worst that life can offer?
A novel of freedom and frailty, desire and daring, The Beautiful American portrays the extraordinary relationship between two passionate, unconventional women.
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| Title | : | The Beautiful American |
| Author | : | Jeanne Mackin |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 384 pages |
| Published | : | June 3rd 2014 by NAL |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Cultural. France. War. World War II. Art |
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Ratings: 3.83 From 2306 Users | 260 ReviewsColumn Regarding Books The Beautiful American
I would like to give this book 3 stars but I just can't! One of the reviews on the cover of the book compares this book to The Paris Wife. Hah! What a joke!This book is about the famous (though I have never heard of her) model and photographer Lee Miller, who was also a lover of Man Ray ( who at least I have heard of). I didn't particularly like any of the characters, least of all Lee. Nora, the narrator, is a doormat and her boyfriend Jamie is just sad and predictable. The only character whoI was fortunate enough to read an advance copy of this wonderful novel and I LOVED every word. MacKin takes you into the ex-pat world of many famous and fictional artists during the 20s in Paris and beyond, including the Blitz in London. Its a beautiful, touching story that's compulsively readable. Filled with rich characters and historical detail, I'm so excited for people to discover this wonderful novel and cannot wait to read more from her.
Oh my goodness, very deep,dark and full of the unexpected. I had never heard of Lee Miller, but now I can't get enough. The more I research the more I think how sad, but how she lived and did not live in her life time. She did so much with her life yet it was like she was going through the motions and not really being there just a body who did not want to look at as a body but all the the things she did made her just an object to be looked at until the war. Her photo's of the war showed her
I was gifted a copy of this book during The Beautiful American blog tour, and once I began reading, I was immediately immersed in the setting and story. As a bit of background, let me just tell you I'm not an expert on famous artists and I rarely read biographies of artists. In fact, I had never heard of Lee Miller, the photographer central to this story. While this book is not a biography of Picasso, or Man Ray or Lee Miller, one comes away with the feeling of intimate knowledge of their
A novel of freedom and frailty, desire and daring, The Beautiful American portrays the extraordinary relationship between two passionate, unconventional women.These words copied from the book's summary say it all for me. I loved this book and really got into the characters. Plus the words used to describe relationships and events were truly beautiful.If you are a romantic, this book is truly worth the read.
The Beautiful American is an elegantly written novel that explores the lives of two fascinating women whose paths' cross several times between childhood and middle-age. Their experiences will inspire you, make you smile, and leave you with a heavy heart. It's a journey not to be missed.Nora is an American living abroad in France but when her sixteen-year-old daughter turns up missing, Nora's search takes her to London. As her search continues where she runs into her old friend, Lee Miller. Lee
"Jeanne Mackin blends a tale as intoxicating as the finest fragrance. Spanning wars both personal and global, A BEAUTIFUL AMERICAN leaves its essence of love, loss, regret, and hope long after the novel concludes." (My Cover Endorsement)
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