num_pages: 401
description: Against the unforgettable backdrop of New York near the turn of the twentieth century from the Gilded Age world of formal balls and opera to the immigrant poverty of the Lower East Side bestselling author Susan Vreeland again breathes life into a work of art in this extraordinary novel which brings a woman once lost in the shadows into vivid color.Its 1893 and at the Chicago Worlds Fair Louis Comfort Tiffany makes his debut with a luminous exhibition of innovative stained-glass windows which he hopes will honor his family business and earn him a place on the international artistic stage. But behind the scenes in his New York studio is the freethinking Clara Driscoll head of his womens division. Publicly unrecognized by Tiffany Clara conceives of and designs nearly all of the iconic leaded-glass lamps for which he is long remembered.Clara struggles with her desire for artistic recognition and the seemingly insurmountable challenges that she faces as a professional woman which ultimately force her to protest against the company she has worked so hard to cultivate. She also yearns for love and companionship and is devoted in different ways to five men including Tiffany who enforces to a strict he does not hire married women and any who do marry while under his employ must resign immediately. Eventually like many women Clara must decide what makes her happiestthe professional world of her hands or the personal world of her heart.
language: English
title: Clara and Mr. Tiffany
publisher: Random House