Picture Palace
A Novel
On Sale: 10/21/2014
Picture Palace
A Novel
On Sale: 10/21/2014
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About the Book
“Never a dull moment . . . Vivid and deft.” — New York Review of BooksMaude Pratt is a legend, a photographer famous for her cutting-edge techniques and uncanny ability to strip away the masks of the world’s most recognizable celebrities and luminaries. Now in her seventies, Maude has been in the public eye since the 1920s, and her unparalleled portfolio includes intimate portraits of Gertrude Stein, Hemingway, and Picasso. While Maude possesses a singular capability to expose the inner lives of her subjects, she is obsessive about protecting her own, hiding her deepest secret in the “picture palace” of her memory. But when a young archivist comes to stay in Maude’s Cape Cod home and begins sorting through her fifty years of work, Maude is forced to face her past and come to terms, at last, with the tragedies she’s buried.
“A breathtaking tale . . . Intangibly, intricately brilliant.” — Telegraph (UK)
Product Details
- ISBN: 9780544340800
- ISBN 10: 0544340809
- Imprint: Mariner Books
- On Sale: 10/21/2014
- Pages: 368
- List Price:21.50 CAD
- BISAC1 : DRAMA / American / General
- BISAC2 : FICTION / Contemporary Women
- BISAC3 : FICTION / Psychological
- BISAC4 : FICTION / Literary
- BISAC5 : LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Women Authors
- BISAC6 : LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / General
- BISAC7 : DRAMA / Women Authors
- BISAC8 : FICTION: World Literature / American / 20th Century
- BISAC9 : FICTION / Romance / Historical / 20th Century
- BISAC10 : FICTION: World Literature / American / 21st Century
