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Paris, 1862. A young girl in a threadbare dress and green boots, hungry for experience, meets the mysterious and wealthy artist Édouard Manet. The encounter will change her - and the art world - forever.
At seventeen, Victorine Meurent abandons her old life to become immersed in the Parisian society of dance halls and cafés, meeting writers and artists like Baudelaire and Alfred Stevens. As Manet's model, Victorine explores a world of new possibilities and stirs the artist to push the boundaries of painting in his infamous portrait Olympia, which scandalizes even the most cosmopolitan city.
Manet becomes himself because of Victorine. But who does she become, that figure on the divan?
Intense, erotic, and beautifully wrought, Paris Red evokes the unconventional love story of a painter and his muse that changed the history of art.
"Starred Review. an insightful and riveting account of how Manet and his muse feed off of each other's passion to create something greater than either of them." - Publishers Weekly
"By focusing so closely on the self-absorbed Victorine's inner life and on candid physical descriptions of her sexual encounters with the artist, however, Gibbon gives comparatively short shrift to developing Manet as a character or to exploring the historical context of his work" - Library Journal
"Full of animated scenes of working-class Paris in the 1860s, Gibbon's color-rich prose moves with the deliberate urgency of brushstrokes on canvas." - Booklist
"Fans of art history, Paris and contemporary Künstleromanlike Girl With a Pearl Earring will enjoy the new perspective and the strong female voice." - Kirkus Reviews
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Maureen Gibbon is the author of two previous novels. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in the New York Times, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Playboy, Byliner, and elsewhere. She lives in Park Rapids, Minnesota.
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