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These Good Hands
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- Book Synopsis
- Captive to a staggering genius and mounting paranoia, Mademoiselle--the fictional incarnation of legendary French sculptor Camille Claudel--relives her art-making in Belle Époque Paris from the asylum where she's been captive for thirty years. The year is 1943, the height of the Vichy regime in war-torn France, and salvation comes in the form of Solange Poitier, the nurse who cares for Mademoiselle in her final days, and their growing friendship. In this compassionate, deftly-researched novel melding art history and storytelling, art and medicine mingle in the characters' rejection of the misogynistic conditions that would stifle their deepest ambitions and gifts. Best known as Rodin's muse and mistress, Claudel is given a voice here that's fiercely hers and her art a recognition long due.
- About The Author
- Carol Bruneau is the author of seven books: three short fiction collections and four novels, including the recently released A Bird on Every Tree . Her first novel, Purple for Sky , won the 2001 Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award and the Dartmouth Book Award. She lives with her husband in Halifax, where she teaches writing at NSCAD University.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781771086172
- Format
- PAPERBACK
- Publisher
- NIMBUS PUBLISHING (CN), (14 November 2017)
- Number of Pages
- 320
- Weight
- 391 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 216 x 127 x 0 mm
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