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Luncheon of the Boating Party
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From the bestelling author of GIRL IN HYACINTH BLUE"A vivid exploration of one of the most beloved Renoir paintings in the world, done with a flourish worthy of Renoir himself" (USA Today)
With her richly textured novels, Susan Vreeland has offered pioneering portraits of artists' lives. As she did in Girl in Hyacinth Blue, Vreeland focuses on a single painting, Auguste Renoir's instantly recognizable masterpiece, which depicts a gathering of Renoir's real friends enjoying a summer Sunday on a café terrace along the Seine. Narrated by Renoir and seven of the models, the novel illuminates the gusto, hedonism, and art of the era. With a gorgeous palette of vibrant, captivating characters, Vreeland paints their lives, loves, losses, and triumphs so vividly that "the painting literally comes alive" (The Boston Globe).
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        Imagining the banks of the Seine in the thick of la vie moderne
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        One of the most significant paintings of the impressionist period is Renoir's "Luncheon of the Boating Party", and it's hard to imagine that a novel could do it justice. Yet this new work from Vreeland ("Girl in Hyacinth Blue") does just that. She opens with an agitated Renoir eager to respond to criticism from É mile Zola, of all people, that the Impressionists have yet to produce a work of genius measuring up to their claims. Prodded by Alphonsine, whose family owns a restaurant on the river near his mother's home in Louveciennes, Renoir conceives a masterwork that will truly capture "la vie moderne". He will depict a group of "canotiers", or boaters, enjoying a festive lunch on the restaurant's veranda. Then he's off to collect models: Alphonsine, of course, and her brother; the painter Gustave Caillebotte; an actress and a model he has loved; and more. Vreeland weaves together their stories in unaffected prose that at first seems too modest for the painting it describes. In the end, she creates a profoundly moving portrait of the creative process and of a community of people who came together for a moment to help create one great work.] Highly recommended. [See Prepub Alert, "LJ" 1/07.]Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal

        Copyright 2007 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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        Once again--to the delight of her legion of fans--the best-selling author of " Girl in Hyacinth Blue " (1999) and " The Passion of Artemesia " (2002) imaginatively uses art history as the basis for a carefully constructed historical novel. Vreeland turns this time to French impressionist master Auguste Renoir's famous painting " Luncheon of the Boating Party" , which depicts a group of people (in 1880) enjoying leisure time on the terrace of a riverside restaurant. The current conditions in the life of the painter himself launch the author on an amazingly engrossing reinvigoration of the lives of the individuals who modeled for Renoir for that work, all of whom were actual people, and all are given a third dimension in Vreeland's lovely prose, beyond the two dimensions in which they were painted. Renoir's purpose was to create not only a masterpiece but also a work that would solve the dilemma of his continuing to "belong" to the impressionist school of which he had been a primary founder; in other words, he put his reputation on the line with " Luncheon" . There are, then, basically three levels of "atmosphere" swirling through the pages of this riveting, complex novel: Renoir's issues in composing the painting, the separate and interconnected lives of the 14 individuals appearing in it, and the spirit of " la vie moderne" , the new modes of living, thinking, and expressing as conducted by the French arts community at the time. (Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2007, American Library Association.)

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