The lost sketchbook of Edgar Degas
By: Harriet Scott Chessman
Publisher: Outpost19
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 137
ISBN-13: 9781944853136
Subjects: Cousins; Fiction
Description: Ten years after Edgar Degas 1872 visit to New Orleans, a lost sketchbook surfaces. His Creole cousin Tell -- who lost her sight as a young woman -- listens as her former child-servant describes the drawings and reads Degas enigmatic words. Its both cryptic and revelatory, leading Tell to new understandings of her marriage, her difficult, brilliant cousin Edgar, her daughter Josephine, and herself.