Name: Leonora in the Morning Light, Paperback/Michaela Carter
Brand: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Price: 108.99 RON
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*One of Oprah Daily 's Most Anticipated Historical Fiction Novels That Will Sweep You Away* "Michaela Carter's training as a poet and painter shines through from the first page of this vivid, gorgeous novel based on the lives of Leonora Carrington and Max Ernst. Told with all the wild magic and mystery of the Surrealists themselves, Leonora in the Morning Light fearlessly illuminates the life and work of a formidable female artist." --Whitney Scharer, bestselling author of The Age of Light For fans of Amy Bloom's White Houses and Colm Tóibín's The Master , a "gorgeously written, meticulously researched" (Jillian Cantor, bestselling author of Half Life ) novel about Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington and the art, drama, and romance that defined her coming-of-age during World War II. 1940. A train carrying exiled German prisoners from a labor camp arrives in southern France. Within moments, word spreads that Nazi capture is imminent, and the men flee for the woods, desperate to disappear across the Spanish border. One stays behind, determined to ride the train until he reaches home, to find a woman he refers to simply as "her." 1937. Leonora Carrington is a twenty-year-old British socialite and painter when she meets Max Ernst, an older, married artist whose work has captivated Europe. She follows him to Paris, into the vibrant world of studios and cafes where rising visionaries of the Surrealist movement like Andre Breton, Pablo Picasso, Lee Miller, Man Ray, and Salvador Dal