The figures stroll from Renoir's painting and into the pages of Susan Vreeland's new novel with all the vibrancy and elegance of the canvas itself. A marvelous evocation that brings a painting - and an entire age - beautifully to life.
--Ross King, author of Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling and The Judgment of Paris
As impressionistically dazzling and humane as the Renoir painting that inspires it, Luncheon of the Boating Party is itself a true work of art. Susan Vreeland has for some time been one of our finest writers, and this is her best book yet.
--Robert Olen Butler, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
Susan Vreeland's Luncheon of the Boating Party shimmers like the surface of an impressionist painting. Her cast of warm and vibrant characters delights and welcomes me to their luncheon and to . . . the bohemian, artistic life of Paris in the 1880s.
--Sena Jeter Naslund, author of Ahab's Wife and Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette
Vreeland's love for Renoir is made palpable in this brilliant reconstruction.
--Kirkus
Amazingly engrossing reinvigoration of the lives of [those] who modeled for Renoir. . . lovely prose, a riveting, complex novel.
--Booklist
See the website: www.svreeland.com
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