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The Age of Light

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**One of the Best Books of the Year:* Parade* , *Glamour* , *Real Simple* , Refinery29, Yahoo! Lifestyle Journey back to 1930’s Paris with this **** startlingly modern love story and a mesmerizing portrait of a woman’s self-transformation from muse to artist (Celeste Ng, author of *Little Fires Everywhere* ), perfect for fans of the Netflix show *Transatlantic* and Beatriz Williams.** I’d rather take a photograph than be one, Lee Miller declares after she arrives in Paris in 1929, where she soon catches the eye of the famous Surrealist Man Ray. Though he wants to use her only as a model, Lee convinces him to take her on as his assistant and teach her everything he knows. As they work together in the darkroom, their personal and professional lives become intimately entwined, changing the course of Lee’s life forever. Lee’s journey of self-discovery takes took her from the cabarets of bohemian Paris to the battlefields of war-torn Europe during WWII, from inventing radical new photography techniques to documenting the liberation of the concentration camps as one of the first female war correspondents. Through it all, Lee must grapple with the question of whether it’s possible to stay true to herself while also fulfilling her artistic ambitionand what she will have to sacrifice to do so.

About Author

Whitney Scharer's debut novel, THE AGE OF LIGHT, based on the life of pioneering photographer Lee Miller, was published by Little, Brown (US) and Picador (UK) in February, 2019, and was a Boston Globe

Author

Whitney Scharer

Format

Ebook

ISBN

9780316524148

Language

English

Pages

346

Publication Date

02-04-2019

Publisher

Little, Brown and Company

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