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Author: Jean Strouse
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Dimensions:
Width: 17.20cm
, Height: 2.90cm
, Length: 22.60cm
Weight: 0.576kg
ISBN: 9780374615673
ISBN 10: 0374615675
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 19 November 2024
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
"""A riveting book about an amazing vanished world, a remarkable family and a great and mysterious artist, told with energy and vividness and sharp humor, full of extraordinary characters, some dubious, some shocking, some tragic, and sweeping with speed and brio over a great arc of time. No one could tell this story better, and what a story it is!"" --Hermione Lee"
""Family Romance [is] Jean Strouse's brisk, wise and admiring survey of an unusually long client relationship that signaled a tenuous shift in British society . . . Strouse confronts prejudice unblinkingly but with a historian's grace for evolving mores . . ."" --Walker Mimms, The New York Times ""Family Romance captures wonderfully what Strouse says Sargent himself captured in his paintings: a time of ""fading grandeur and fresh energies, the colors and shadows, the dazzle and unease of a world in flux."" --Jim Kelly, Air Mail ""Acidly delightful . . . Strouse has an astute eye for the era's swerves and twists . . . I read and shivered and tried, unsuccessfully, to think of other sub-three-hundred-page works of nonfiction that deserve to be called epic."" --Jackson Arn, The New Yorker ""The history of art is a history of commerce . . . Jean Strouse delicately and thoroughly traces one such exchange . . . absorbing"" --Charles Finch, The Boston Globe ""[An] outstanding piece of narrative history . . . Family Romance is a book that not only gives the Wertheimers their due, but helps to finish painting the picture of them that the master portraitist of their gilded age had left so tantalizingly incomplete."" --Eloy Rosenberg, Tablet ""An absorbing story . . . . one ends it very grateful to have learned about this extraordinary and engaging family and the important part it played in Sargent's life and career."" --Peter Parker, TLS ""A riveting book about an amazing vanished world, a remarkable family and a great and mysterious artist, told with energy and vividness and sharp humor, full of extraordinary characters, some dubious, some shocking, some tragic, and sweeping with speed and brio over a great arc of time. No one could tell this story better, and what a story it is!"" --Hermione Lee
""A riveting book about an amazing vanished world, a remarkable family and a great and mysterious artist, told with energy and vividness and sharp humor, full of extraordinary characters, some dubious, some shocking, some tragic, and sweeping with speed and brio over a great arc of time. No one could tell this story better, and what a story it is!"" --Hermione Lee
Author Information
Jean Strouse is the author of Morgan: American Financier and Alice James: A Biography, which won the Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy. Her essays and reviews have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, Architectural Digest, and Newsweek. Strouse has been a Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation and served as the Sue Ann and John Weinberg Director of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library from 2003 to 2017. She lives in New York City.
