EAN: 9780593129449

THE BOHEMIANS - JASMIN DARZNIK KARTONIERT (TB)

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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