From Paris in the 1920s to London after the Blitz, two women
find that a secret from their past reverberates through years of
joy and sorrow.
As recovery from World War II begins, expatriate American Nora
Tours travels from her home in southern France to London in search
of her missing sixteen-year-old daughter. There she unexpectedly
meets up with an old acquaintance, famous model-turned-photographer
Lee Miller. Neither has emerged from the war unscathed. Nora is
racked with the fear that her efforts to survive under the Vichy
regime may have cost her daughter s life. Lee suffers from what she
witnessed as a war correspondent photographing the liberation of
the Nazi concentration camps.
Nora and Lee knew each other in the heady days of late 1920s
Paris, when Nora was giddy with love for her childhood sweetheart,
Lee became the celebrated mistress of the artist Man Ray, and Lee s
magnetic beauty drew them all into the glamorous lives of famous
artists and their wealthy patrons. But Lee fails to realize that
her friendship with Nora is even older, that it goes back to their
days as children in Poughkeepsie, New York, when a devastating
trauma marked Lee forever. Will Nora s reunion with Lee give them a
chance to forgive past betrayals and break years of silence to
forge a meaningful connection as women who have shared the best and
the worst that life can offer?
A novel of freedom and frailty, desire and daring, "The
Beautiful American" portrays the extraordinary relationship between
two passionate, unconventional women."
General
| Imprint: |
Blackstone Associates Publishing
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
June 2014 |
| First published: |
June 2014 |
| Authors: |
Jeanne Mackin
|
| Readers: |
Kate Reading
|
| Format: |
 Standard format
|
| Disks: |
10 |
| Running time: |
706 minutes |
| Edition: |
Library Edition |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-4830-0724-3 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Genre fiction >
Historical fiction
Promotions
|
| LSN: |
1-4830-0724-3 |
| Barcode: |
9781483007243 |
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