Paris Red A Novel [Paperback]

An intense and erotic depiction, this novel explores the legacyof artist, muse, and masterpiece.Wonderful. . . . [Gibbon] takes readers on a mesmerizing, erotic journey not only to another time and place, but inside the mind of an artist . . . an insightful and riveting account.Youll be caught up in the rich and sensuous world that Gibbons weaves right from the beginning.Very few writers, living or dead, can convey the progress, pains, and pleasures of the sensual life as fully, vividly, and unapologetically as Maureen Gibbon.Maureen Gibbons Victorine is a fearless working girl with sharp wits and calloused hands who wants and wants and follows that wanting right out of one life and into another. You will feel her losses and her triumphs as though they were your ownand the next time you look at Manets Olympia she will look right back at you.No one evokes the raw, confusing desire of young women with crappy jobs, threadbare clothes, and a lusty eye better than Maureen Gibbon does, and withA rare treasure: a powerfully written novel with a sensual, fierce, intelligent heroine. Gibbons language is muscular and precise and gorgeous, and she evokes a Paris so viscerally real, I could taste the potato soup, smell the smoke and paint, and feel Victorine inhabiting her own skin as she discovers her powers. What an amazing book.Maureen Gibbon brings to life a Paris charged with erotic immediacy and honesty. The novel illuminates the transformative nature of art and is engrossing with sensual details. Amazing.For readers of