This gripping insight into the bohemian Paris of the 1930s is packed full of passion and heart * My Weekly * Here Scharer tells a vivid story - Eithne Farry * Daily Mirror * Scharer simultaneously conjures Paris of the Thirties - whether artists' studios, seedy dives or glamorous parties - with the deftest of brush strokes * Daily Mail *Ī startlingly modern love story and a mesmerizing portrait of a woman's self-transformation from muse into artist - Celeste Ng, New York Times bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere Publisher: Pan Macmillan ISBN: 9781509889150 Number of pages: 320 Weight: 273 g Dimensions: 196 x 130 x 25 mm MEDIA REVIEWS
'Fans of Mrs Hemingway and The Paris Wife will love this one' - Elle 'Powerful, sensual and gripping' - Madeleine Miller, author of Circe But as Lee begins to assert herself, and to create pioneering work of her own, Man's jealousy spirals out of control and leads to a betrayal that threatens to destroy them both.
Lee and Man spend their days working closely in the studio and their nights at smoky cabarets and wild parties. Man is an egotistical, charismatic force and they soon embark upon a passionate affair. When she catches the eye of artist Man Ray she convinces him to hire her as his assistant. Lee Miller has abandoned her life in New York and a modelling career at Vogue to pursue her dream of becoming a photographer. In the video below, Hale discusses his ideal writing spaces, his unintentional pet word, and the importance of confidence for a (capital w) writer.For fans of Mrs Hemingway and The Paris Wife, Whitney Scharer's The Age of Light is the riveting, vivid and powerful story of the photographer Lee Miller and her lover, Man Ray. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves (Knopf, 2006).Īpplications for the 2013 award will be accepted until July 15, 2012. Last year's recipient was thirty-year-old Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia! (Knopf, 2011) and St. The manuscript was awarded a Michener-Copernicus Award, and, after publication, was selected for a number of "best of" lists including Barnes & Noble's Discover Great New Writers roundup.Īmong the past winners of the Bard Fiction Prize, given annually to a fiction writer under forty, are Samantha Hunt, Fiona Maazel, Salvador Plascencia, and Peter Orner. Author of The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore, the story of a self-aware and morally-engaged chimpanzee published last January by Twelve, Hale will receive thirty thousand dollars and a semester-long appointment as writer-in-residence at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.Ī graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Hale was awarded a provost's fellowship from the University of Iowa to complete his first novel. Twenty-eight-year old novelist Benjamin Hale adds the Bard Fiction Prize to his list of honors.
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