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The Fountain of St. James Court; Or, Portrait of the Artist as an Old Woman

The Fountain of St. James Court; Or, Portrait of the Artist as an Old Woman - Paperback

by Sena Jeter Naslund
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Availability:In StockContributor:Sena Jeter NaslundPublish date:5/13/2014Pages:464
Language:EnglishPublisher:William Morrow & CompanyISBN-13:9780061579509ISBN-10:61579505UPC:9780061579509Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, Women, LiteraryBook Topic:MedievalSize:8.00 x 5.40 x 1.40 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCJ3XNWPV8

New York Times bestselling author Sena Jeter Naslund explores the artistic processes and lives of creative women in her groundbreaking literary opus The Fountain of St. James Court; or Portrait of the Artist as an Old Woman.

Sena Jeter Naslund's inspiring novel-within-a-novel depicts the lives of both a fictional contemporary writer and a historic painter whose works now hang in the great museums of Europe and America.

The story opens at midnight beside a beautifully illumined fountain of Venus Rising from the Sea. Kathryn Callaghan has just finished her novel about painter Élisabeth Vigée-LeBrun, a survivor of the French Revolution hated for her sympathetic portraits of Marie Antoinette. Though still haunted by the story she has written, Kathryn must leave the eighteenth-century European world she has researched and made vivid in order to return to her own life as an American in 2012.

Naslund's spellbinding new novel presents the reader with an alternate version of The Artist: a woman of age who has created for herself, against enormous odds, a fulfilling life of thoroughly realized achievement.

Language:EnglishPublisher:William Morrow & CompanyISBN-13:9780061579509ISBN-10:61579505UPC:9780061579509Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, Women, LiteraryBook Topic:MedievalSize:8.00 x 5.40 x 1.40 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCJ3XNWPV8
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Sena Jeter Naslund is a cofounder and program director of the Spalding University (Louisville) brief-residency MFA in Writing, where she edits The Louisville Review and Fleur-de-Lis Press. A winner of the Harper Lee Award and the Southeastern Library Association Fiction award, she is the author of eight previous works of fiction, including Ahab's Wife, a finalist for the Orange Prize. She recently retired from her position as Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Louisville.

Publisher: William Morrow & Company

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