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I Always Loved You

A Novel

by Robin Oliveira
Mozhan Marnò
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A story of Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas, from the New York Times bestselling author of  My Name Is Mary Sutter
The young Mary Cassatt never thought moving to Paris after the Civil War to be an artist was going to be easy, but when, after a decade of work, her submission to the Paris Salon is rejected, Mary’s fierce determination wavers. Her father is begging her to return to Philadelphia to find a husband before it is too late, her sister Lydia is falling mysteriously ill, and worse, Mary is beginning to doubt herself. Then one evening a friend introduces her to Edgar Degas and her life changes forever. Years later she will learn that he had begged for the introduction, but in that moment their meeting seems a miracle. So begins the defining period of her life and the most tempestuous of relationships.
In I Always Loved You, Robin Oliveira brilliantly re-creates the irresistible world of Belle Époque Paris, writing with grace and uncommon insight into the passion and foibles of the human heart.
For readers of Cathy Marie Buchanan's The Painted Girls.
An exhibit on the relationship between Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas is now on display at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and will run until October 5, 2014.

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  • Release date

    August 22, 2023

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780593862636
      • File size: 320766 KB
      • Duration: 11:08:15

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Robin Oliveira recreates the era of the Belle poque, imagining the intertwining lives of artists Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas. Narrator Mozhan Marno quietly demonstrates perfect pronunciation of French places and names. Cassatt was unlike all the other artists of the period--an American and a woman, and an unmarried one at that. Professionally, Degas was Cassatt's mentor. But personally? Oliveira imagines what their forty-year association might have been. Marno gently renders the complicated inner life of Cassatt with her difficult and unwell family, professional anxiety, and, especially, occasional romance and frequent infuriation with Degas. Marno distinguishes Degas by adopting a light French accent, but it's still difficult to keep straight all the other famous characters--Morisot, Manet, Monet, Zola, and Abigail May Alcott--who populate the story. A.B. © AudioFile 2014, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      December 9, 2013
      In her second novel, Oliveira (My Name Is Mary Sutter) expertly draws us into the life of another famous Mary—this time in 1877 Paris, where a revolution is underway in the art world, as a few renegade painters snub (and are snubbed by) the juried exhibitions at the Paris Salon, which were then organized by the Académie des Beaux-Arts. American painter Mary Cassatt has just moved to the City of Light, not to fall in love, but to pursue her dream of becoming an artist, and she longs to get the academy’s stamp of approval. But a chance meeting with Edgar Degas, one of the leading impressionist-era rebels, changes the course of her career and life. Though it’s never been proven that the two painters were lovers, Oliveira explores the next 40 turbulent years of their relationship, and what might have been, crafting a tale of inspiration, desire, and restraint between two great artists of the 19th century.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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