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The time is 1900, the setting a house and garden in the French countryside, the mood celebratory; but even as the sun rises through a clear blue sky on what is surely an idyllic summer's day, darker tones throw their shadows on the bright colors of the landscape, shadows of grief and loss, and the looming, unseen shadow of a catastrophe that will destroy the calm fabric of daily living.Only art and memory are proof against the destruction of time. Claude, creator of the garden, painter of light that constantly redefines the visible world, struggles to hold the shifting images of perfection. And two young children, their lives still ahead of them, take in the world with the fresh eyes of childhood, to hold in their memories a time when it was always summer, the sun always shone, and all things glowed in the light.Light is a luminous, "impressionist" novel about a day in the life of Claude Monet.
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