A Gift from Brittany: A Memoir of Love and Loss in the French Countryside - Hardcover

Price, Marjorie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1592403506 ISBN 13: 9781592403509

Publisher: Gotham, 2008

Synopsis

Documents the author's socially controversial decision to travel alone to Paris in 1960, her efforts to develop herself artistically, and her whirlwind marriage to a volatile painter whose impulsive relocation to a rustic hamlet in southern Brittany gave way to the author's friendship with a wise and illiterate elderly neighbor. 30,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Marjorie Price was born in Chicago. She graduated from Stanford University and studied painting and design at the Chicago Art Institute. In 1960, she left for France, where she created an art center and became a successful artist herself. She moved to Italy in 1970, where her graphics are represented in the permanent collection at the National Museum of Copper Etching in Rome. She now lives in New York City and continues to show her work in galleries.

From Publishers Weekly:

Price, an artist living in 1960s New York City in her 20s, traveled to France in search of an outlet for her artistic creativity. Enthralled by Paris's wrought-iron balconies and the urban landscape that inspired the Impressionists, Price was soon in a fervid romance with Yves, a Frenchman and artist, whom she married. Not long after the birth of their daughter, Danielle, Yves—against Price's protests—bought half a hamlet in a bucolic corner of Brittany, and Price was left with the arduous task of rehabilitating their seven broken-down farmhouses. As her once-quixotic marriage languished with Yves's increasing volatility and unreasonable demands that she stop painting, Price forms an unlikely friendship with her neighbor Jeanne, a villager in her late 60s who becomes her mentor—teaching her, above all else, self-sufficiency—while Price introduces her new companion to the art world and city life. In this sweet, simple memoir, Price redefines her idea of strength and resilience and commemorates a once-in-a-lifetime friendship. (Apr.)
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About this edition

• Publisher: Gotham
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1592403506
• ISBN 13: 9781592403509
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256