Dancing for Degas: A Novel by Wagner, Kathryn

ISBN: 0385343868

Author: Wagner, Kathryn

Condition: new

In the City of Lights, at the dawn of a new age, begins an unforgettable story of great love, great art-and the most painful choices of the heart.With this fresh and vibrantly imagined portrait of the Impressionist artist Edgar Degas, readers are transported through the eyes of a young Parisian ballerina to an era of light and movement. An ambitious and enterprising farm girl, Alexandrie joins the prestigious Paris Opera ballet with hopes of securing not only her place in society but her familys financial future. Her plan is soon derailed, however, when she falls in love with the enigmatic artist whose paintings of the offstage lives of the ballerinas scandalized society and revolutionized the art world. As Alexandrie is drawn deeper into Degass art and Pariss secrets, will she risk everything for her dreams of love and of becoming the ballets star dancer?