The marriage of opposites : a novel
Alice Hoffman.
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- New York : Simon & Schuster, 2015.
- 369 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (page 369).
Growing up on idyllic St. Thomas in the early 1800s, Rachel dreams of life in faraway Paris. Rachels mother, a pillar of their small refugee community of Jews who escaped the Inquisition, has never forgiven her daughter for being a difficult girl who refuses to live by the rules. 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.
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Pissarro, Camille, 1830-1903 --Family--Fiction.
Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
Saint Thomas (United States Virgin Islands : Island)--Fiction.