Luncheon of the Boating Party book cover

Le Déjeuner des Canotiers


un nouveau roman de Susan Vreeland

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Depuis 84 ans qu'il tableau dans The Phillips Collection à Washington, "Le Déjeuner des canotiers" de Pierre-Auguste Renoir, symbolise aux yeux des Américans la France et la culture française. Dans sa force évocative et sa légéreté triomphante, il n'a de rival que cet autre émissaire de France, la Statue de la Liberté. Plus qu'un simple éloge de l'amitié joyeuse et de la chaude convivialité, c'est une véritable peinture de l'âme française. Il nous invite à s'interroger : Comment fait-on pour vivre une vie si empreinte de beauté et si riche de plaisir?

Maintenant, un roman éclaire le mystère de la peinture.

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Vous êtes cordialement invité(e/s) à une conférence en anglais sur

Luncheon of the Boating Party

by

Susan Vreeland
 

Le vendredi, 18 mai 2007, à dix-neuf heures.

 

Copperfield's Books, 138 North Main St. , Sebastopol

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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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