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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Buchanan, Cathy Marie     Subjects     Sisters -- Fiction.     Women -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction.     Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Buchanan, Cathy Marie       by title:      The painted girls (b...       by call number:      BOOK CLUB KIT BUC     Search the Web     Buchanan, Cathy Marie     Sisters -- Fiction.     Women -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction.     Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction.       MARC Display

The painted girls (book club kit - fiction) / Cathy Marie Buchanan. by Buchanan, Cathy Marie HarperCollins Canada, 2013. Call #: BOOK CLUB KIT BUC Subjects Sisters -- Fiction.   Women -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction.   Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction. URL856 Click here to learn more about borrowing Book Club Kits URL856 Would you like to see what other titles we have available in Book Club Kits? Click here! URL856 Holds must be placed via our Request Form URL856 Information kit for The Painted Girls ISBN:  9781443412346 Alternate title:  Book club kit : The painted girls Bookclub kit : The painted girls Description:  10 books, 357 p. ; 23 cm. Notes:  Holds can be placed via the Contact Us page on our website. Please include your library card number, the date you would like to pick up the kit, the branch location, and list several titles for each date, in case your first pick is not available. Ideal for your Book Club or Reading Group. This kit includes a nylon Halifax Public Libraries bag with 10 copies of Cathy Marie Buchanan's "The painted girls", along with author and title information, and a list of discussion questions. The kit is available to borrow for 6 week loans. Summary:  "1878 Paris. Following their father's sudden death, the van Goethem sisters find their lives upended. Without his wages, and with the small amount their laundress mother earns disappearing into the absinthe bottle, eviction from their lodgings seems imminent. With few options for work, Marie is dispatched to the Paris Opéra, where for a scant seventeen francs a week, she will be trained to enter the famous ballet. Her older sister, Antoinette, finds work as an extra in a stage adaptation of Émile Zola's naturalist masterpiece L'Assommoir. Marie throws herself into dance and is soon modeling in the studio of Edgar Degas, where her image will forever be immortalized as Little Dancer Aged Fourteen. There she meets a wealthy male patron of the ballet, but might the assistance he offers come with strings attached? Meanwhile Antoinette, derailed by her love for the dangerous Émile Abadie, must choose between honest labor and the more profitable avenues open to a young woman of the Parisian demimonde. Set at a moment of profound artistic, cultural, and societal change, The Painted Girls is a tale of two remarkable sisters rendered uniquely vulnerable to the darker impulses of 'civilized society.' In the end, each will come to realize that her salvation, if not survival, lies with the other."--Publisher. Genre:  Historical fiction. Canadian fiction. Book Club Kit Other authors:  HPL Readers Services Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Collection Management Adult Book Club Kit BOOKCLUB KIT BUC Adult Book Club Kit Shelving Cart Add Copy to MyList

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