Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper

By: Harriet Scott Chessman

Published October 29th 2002 by Plume (first published 2001)

Category: Arts

Pages: 176 pages

ISBN: 9780452283503

Description:
This richly imagined fiction entices us into the world of Mary Cassatt’s early Impressionist paintings. The story is told by Mary’s sister Lydia, as she poses for five of her sister’s most unusual paintings, which are reproduced in, and form the focal point of each chapter. Ill with Bright’s disease and conscious of her approaching death, Lydia contemplates her world with courageous openness, and asks important questions about love and art’s capacity to remember.