French Girl with Mother
Author: Ollestad, Norman
ISBN: 9781640090125
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 10 Oct 2017
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback / softback
b>"Finely wrought; Ollestad builds a delicate tension between the characters, exposing their raw desire and exploring the concept of artistic inspiration...A quietly tense and absorbing read." -i>Kirkus/i>/b> br>br>br>br> i>French Girl with Mother/i> is a provocative, propulsive thriller that marries the spirit of James Salter with a hint of Patricia Highsmith and the velocity of i>The Art Forger/i>.br>br>br>br>Nathan is a young artist traveling across Europe in search of the emotional fire that has been missing from his work. He's been deemed by his mentors and critics as technically skillful but uninspired -criticisms he fears to be true. On a Paris street, he witnesses the volatile breakup of a young French woman and her beau. Nathan pursues a meeting with the woman and it very quickly becomes evident that her provocative charisma and scathing beauty just may conjure the electricity he has been seeking for his work. So when the woman invites him to her parents' crumbling, centuries-old chateau in the country to allow him to sketch her, he accepts, knowing that this proposition is both ill advised and thrilling.br>br>br>br>Once enveloped by this isolated estate, a door opens to a world Nathan is not prepared for. The arrival of the young woman's family-her mother, a volatile, voracious former ballerina, her father, a mysterious businessman with secrets of his own, and her uncle, who might be trafficking in art forgeries.
ISBN: 9781640090125
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 10 Oct 2017
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback / softback
b>"Finely wrought; Ollestad builds a delicate tension between the characters, exposing their raw desire and exploring the concept of artistic inspiration...A quietly tense and absorbing read." -i>Kirkus/i>/b> br>br>br>br> i>French Girl with Mother/i> is a provocative, propulsive thriller that marries the spirit of James Salter with a hint of Patricia Highsmith and the velocity of i>The Art Forger/i>.br>br>br>br>Nathan is a young artist traveling across Europe in search of the emotional fire that has been missing from his work. He's been deemed by his mentors and critics as technically skillful but uninspired -criticisms he fears to be true. On a Paris street, he witnesses the volatile breakup of a young French woman and her beau. Nathan pursues a meeting with the woman and it very quickly becomes evident that her provocative charisma and scathing beauty just may conjure the electricity he has been seeking for his work. So when the woman invites him to her parents' crumbling, centuries-old chateau in the country to allow him to sketch her, he accepts, knowing that this proposition is both ill advised and thrilling.br>br>br>br>Once enveloped by this isolated estate, a door opens to a world Nathan is not prepared for. The arrival of the young woman's family-her mother, a volatile, voracious former ballerina, her father, a mysterious businessman with secrets of his own, and her uncle, who might be trafficking in art forgeries.
