Good morning, everyone! Please welcome author Jeannie Mackin to Full Moon Dreaming. She is here to tell us about her new release, Picasso's Lovers. Jeannie will be awarding a $25 Amazon/BN GC to one randomly drawn commenter via Rafflecopter during the tour. The more you comment, the greater your chances of winning. To find the other stops on her tour, go here. Don't forget to look for the Rafflecopter at the end of this post!
PICASSO'S LOVERS
Jeanne Mackin
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GENRE: Historical Fiction
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BLURB:
You
know Pablo Picasso. Now meet the women
behind the masterpieces. The women of Picasso's life are glamorous and elusive,
existing in the shadow of his fame - until, in the 1950's, aspiring journalist
Alana Olsen determines to bring one into the light and discovers a past
complicated by secrets and intrigue.
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EXCERPT:
Gazes from Pablo Picasso are like brushstrokes. Some are long, lingering, full of texture and
pigment. Some are short, shallow, even accidental. His gaze on me now falls somewhere between
the two.
Once, his gaze would have found enough for an entire
painting. He would have seen flesh, and the bone and muscle under the flesh,
the question or certainty of the eyes. He would have seen past, present, and
future and painted them in a way that made time irrelevant.
Yes, that was how he pained me. Everything and at once, all
the angles and geometry of the body, and he made of me something eternal and
always beautiful. That is what an
artists can do for a woman. When most
men looked at me, all I saw in their faces was desire, the urge to possess.
When Pablo looked at me, his face filled with wonder waiting to be translated
to lines and brushstrokes.
Spring. The second year of the Great War. I wasn’t twenty
yet, and had returned from cold, starving Moscow, where a loaf of bread coast
as much as a silk dress…Back to Paris for me!
When Pablo first saw me, I was sitting on the rim of the
Wallace Fountain in Place Emile, face turned up to the sun like a basking cat,
enjoying the fine day and wondering what adventure I might find…It was early summer. I had stolen a
bunch of cherries at Les Halles and a roll, but my stomach rattled.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Jeanne Mackin is the author of several historical novels,
including The Last Collection, which has been translated into five languages,
and The Beautiful American, which won a CNY award for fiction. She has taught in the MFA Creative Writing
program at Goddard College and won journalism awards, and is currently at work
on her next novel.
Website: http://www.jeannemackin.com
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Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Picassos-Lovers-Jeanne-Mackin-ebook/dp/B0C3C2J4FH/ref=sr_1_1
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thanks so much for hosting me!
ReplyDeleteYou're very welcome, Jeanne! Best of luck with your book!
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