The marriage of opposites - alice hoffman

A luminous, Marquez-esque tale ( O, The Oprah Magazine ) from the New York Times bestselling author of The Museum of Extraordinary Things a forbidden love story set on a tropical island about the extraordinary woman who gave birth to painter Camille Pissarro--the Father of Impressionism.

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.

Growing up, Rachels salvation is their maid Adelles belief in her strengths, and her deep, life-long friendship with Jestine, Adelles daughter.

But Rachels life is not her own.

She is married off to a widower with three children to save her fathers business.

When her older husband dies suddenly and his handsome, much younger nephew, Fr d rick, arrives from France to settle the estate, Rachel seizes her own life story, beginning a defiant, passionate love affair that sparks a scandal that affects all of her family, including her favorite son, who will become one of the greatest artists of France.

A work of art ( Dallas Morning News ), The Marriage of Opposites showcases the beloved, bestselling Alice Hoffman at the height of her considerable powers.

Her lush, seductive prose, and heart-pounding subject.

make this latest skinny-dip in enchanted realism.

the Platonic ideal of the beach read (Slate.

Once forgotten to history, the marriage of Rachel and Fr d rick will only renew your commitment to Hoffmans astonishing storytelling ( USA TODAY ).