| The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque (Perennial) Perennial Edition Contributor(s): Ford, Jeffrey (Author) |
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ISBN: 0060936177 ISBN-13: 9780060936174 Publisher: William Morrow & Company OUR PRICE: $15.29 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2019 Annotation: New York, 1893. Society portraitist Piambo receives a commission he cannot refuse. A mysterious woman offers Piambo a fortune to paint her portrait. As Piambo's masterpiece takes shape, his relationship with the woman grows more tangled and her deranged--almost certainly murderous--husband becomes bent on revenge. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Thrillers - Suspense - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.34" W x 8" (0.52 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1800-1850 - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. - Geographic Orientation - New York - Locality - New York, N.Y. |
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| Publisher Description: A mysterious and richly evocative novel, The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque tells the story of portraitist Piero Piambo, who is offered a commission unlike any other. The client is Mrs. Charbuque, a wealthy and elusive woman who asks Piambo to paint her portrait, though with one bizarre twist: he may question her at length on any topic, but he may not, under any circumstances, see her. So begins an astonishing journey into Mrs. Charbuque's world and the world of 1893 New York society in this hypnotically compelling literary thriller. |
Contributor Bio(s): Ford, Jeffrey: - Jeffrey Ford is the author of the novels The Physiognomy, Memoranda, The Beyond, The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque, the Edgar Award-winning The Girl in the Glass, The Cosmology of the Wider World, The Shadow Year, and The Twilight Pariah, and his collections include The Fantasy Writer's Assistant, The Empire of Ice Cream, The Drowned Life, Crackpot Palace, and A Natural History of Hell. He lives near Columbus, Ohio, and teaches writing at Ohio Wesleyan University. |