EAN: 9780593129449

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A dazzling novel of one of America s most celebrated photographers Dorothea Lange exploring the wild years in San Francisco that awakened her career-defining grit compassion and daring. Jasmin Darznik expertly delivers an intriguing glimpse into the woman behind those unforgettable photographs of the Great Depression and their impact on humanity. Susan Meissner bestselling author of The Nature of Fragile Things In this novel of the glittering and gritty Jazz Age a young aspiring photographer named Dorothea Lange arrives in San Francisco in 1918. As a newcomer and naïve one at that Dorothea is grateful for the fast friendship of Caroline Lee a vivacious straight-talking Chinese American with a complicated past who introduces Dorothea to Monkey Block an artists colony and the bohemian heart of the city. Dazzled by Caroline and her friends Dorothea is catapulted into a heady new world of freedom art and politics. She also finds herself falling in love with the brilliant but troubled painter Maynard Dixon. As Dorothea sheds her innocence her purpose is awakened and she grows into the artist whose iconic Depression-era Migrant Mother photograph broke the hearts and opened the eyes of a nation. A vivid and absorbing portrait of the past The Bohemians captures a cast of unforgettable characters including Frida Kahlo Ansel Adams and D. H. Lawrence. But moreover it shows how the gift of friendship and the possibility of self-invention persist against the ferocious pull of history.

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