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A Gift From Brittany (2008)

by Marjorie Price(Favorite Author)

3.87 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1592404340 (ISBN13: 9781592404346)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Gotham

review 1: Read this in the summer and loved the uncomfortable true story of an American artist who takes herself to France at a time when young women did NOT do this kind of thing. She meets up with a French artist who, of course, makes her subsume her own art for supporting him and his. When she finds herself the owner of an old farm in Brittany she learns to communicate with an old woman from the area who speaks a local dialect and they can't speak anything in common. But somehow through the friendship Price survives and works on her own art and jettisons the nasty Frenchman. My favorite part, besides her eventually resilience and coming into her own as an artist is the developing friendship between two women in worlds and times apart.
review 2: The description of this... more book calls it "enchanting" and I will have to agree! It is a lovely little memoir of an American artist who moved to Paris in 1960. She fell in love with a French artist and they moved to a hamlet in the remote countryside. The author painted a beautiful picture of the country and the peasants who inhabited it, with their long-held traditions and very primitive life. But mostly it was a story of friendship--the kind that transcends time and place and unites two completely different women... less

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