Eunice Lipton: 2 books
Alias Olympia
A Woman's Search for Manet's Notorious Model and Her Own Desire
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Eunice Lipton was a fledging art historian when she first became intrigued by Victorine Meurent, the nineteenth-century model who appeared in Edouard Manet's most famous paintings, only to vanish from history in a haze of degrading hearsay. But had this bold and spirited beauty really descended into...
A Distant Heartbeat
A War, a Disappearance, and a Family’s Secrets
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
On May 20, 1938, a young man from the Bronx informs his parents that he is leaving for the Catskills to begin his new job as a waiter. Instead, he sails for Europe to join the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War, the opening round in the fight against Hitler and Mussolini. The man, Dave...