The Marriage of Opposites

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The Marriage of Opposites

â€œA luminous, Marquez-esque taleâ€ (O, The Oprah Magazine) from the New York Times bestselling author of The Museum of Extraordinary Things: a forbidden love story set on a tropical island about the extraordinary woman who gave birth to painter Camille Pissarroâ€”the Father of Impressionism.

Growing up on idyllic St. Thomas in the early 1800s, Rachel dreams of life in faraway Paris. Rachelâ€™s mother, a pillar of their small refugee community of Jews who escaped the Inquisition, has never forgiven her daughter for being a difficult girl who refuses to live by the rules. Growing up, Rachelâ€™s salvation is their maid Adelleâ€™s belief in her strengths, and her deep, life-long friendship with Jestine, Adelleâ€™s daughter. But Rachelâ€™s life is not her own. She is married off to a widower with three children to save her fatherâ€™s business. When her older husband dies suddenly and his handsome, much younger nephew, FrÃ©dÃ©rick, arrives from France to settle the estate, Rachel seizes her own life story, beginning a defiant, passionate love affair that sparks a scandal that affects all of her family, including her favorite son, who will become one of the greatest artists of France.

â€œA work of artâ€ (Dallas Morning News), The Marriage of Opposites showcases the beloved, bestselling Alice Hoffman at the height of her considerable powers. â€œHer lush, seductive prose, and heart-pounding subjectâ€¦make this latest skinny-dip in enchanted realismâ€¦the Platonic ideal of the beach readâ€ (Slate.com). Once forgotten to history, the marriage of Rachel and FrÃ©dÃ©rick â€œwill only renew your commitment to Hoffmanâ€™s astonishing storytellingâ€ (USA TODAY).

Country	USA
Author	Alice Hoffman
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	Reprint
EISBN	9781451693614
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
NumberOfPages	385
PublicationDate	2015-08-04
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
ReleaseDate	2015-08-04
Studio	Simon & Schuster

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