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Against the backdrop of the New York art scene of the 1950s and 1960s, sculptor Ivan St. Peters pursues both Boston beauty Emma Blackstone and his muse, Maisie
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This banal and thoroughly predictable tale of passion and woe in the 1950s should delight readers of Judith Krantz et al. Maisie Green recalls through first-person narrative her "poor but honest" beginnings in New York as she struggles to cope with the sudden marriage of her lover, up-and-coming sculptor Ivan St. Peters, to heiress Emma Blackstone. Emma's distraught ex-fiance, Julian Slade, is also Ivan's dealer, and he vengefully scuttles Ivan's career. Maisie, meanwhile, dries her tears on the shoulder of a wealthy author, marries him and, in an odd turn of events, tries to help the now-impoverished Ivan. Personal destruction, death and despair course through this novel of love and hate, but unhappily, Hampton ( Seductions ) merely glosses over the modern art movement, a missed opportunity that only adds to the shortcomings of a love story with promising potential related in minimal fashion.
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From Library Journal
Given its suggestive title, this novel of bohemian New York in the 1950s and 1960s could be dismissed as just another bedroom farce, which would be a mistake. For Maisie Green, fresh from suburbia, and her peers, whether poets, sculptors, or painters, desire can be physical, certainly, but it is also the pursuit of artistic fulfillment and beauty. This is a spirited and entertaining story, and Hampton ( Seductions) strikes just the right balance in the use of famous locales and real personalities. Still, one could wish for more of the intriguing character of Dance Duprey and less of the younger generation. Lydia Burruel Johnson, Mesa P.L., Ariz.
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- PublisherJove
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0515101915
- ISBN 13 9780515101911
- BindingMass Market Paperback
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Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Fair. Please see any and all photos connected with this listing. A bit scuffed but all pages intact and legible. Good reading copies. Clean. Store Stamped. Slightly misshapen from storage. --- --- TEMPTATION --- Ravishing but tough riverboat gambler Amanda Sites wants to be a proper lady and her newly won half of a Kentucky horse farm seems the answer to her prayers with a magnificently handsome partner thrown in to sweeten the pot! . . . . .First his fool brother loses half of the family estate in a poker game and now Grant Gardner has to put up with a brazen hussy who thinks she has the right to run things turning his house upside-down, his servants against him and worst yet, driving him crazy with desire! . . . . .Come hell or high water, Grant is determined to get the lovely, willful wildcat off his back and out of his life if only he can resist her scandalously lush body and the soul-searing fire that blazes in her eyes! --- DESIRE --- A haunting novel that explores the history of the modern art movement and reveals the passions of a generation. From the wild bohemia of New York in the fifties to the explosive sixties, art and money are traded for ambition, social acceptance and love. . . Seller Inventory # 23974
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