TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hoffman,Alice
TI  - The marriage of opposites: a novel based on the life of Rachel Pizzarro 
SN  - 1451693591 (hardback)
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New York
PB  - Simon & Schuster
KW  - Pissarro, Camille,
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Saint Thomas (United States Virgin Islands : Island)
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Romance fiction
N1  - Includes bibliography (page 369)
N2  - "A forbidden love story set on the tropical island of St. Thomas about the extraordinary woman who gave birth to painter Camille Pissarro, the Father of Impressionism"--; Growing up on idyllic St. Thomas in the early 1800s, Rachel dreams of life in faraway Paris. Instead she is married off to a widower with three children to save her father's business. When her husband dies suddenly and his handsome, much younger nephew, Frédérick, arrives from France to settle the estate, Rachel seizes her own life story. They begin 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
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