Lydia Cassatt reading the morning paper
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Harriet Scott Chessman.
Edition: Permanent Press/Seven Stories Press 1st ed.
Publisher: Permanent Press and Seven Stories Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 164
Subjects: Cassatt, Lydia, d. 1882 -- Fiction.; Cassatt, Mary, 1844-1926 -- Fiction.; Bright's disease -- Patients -- Fiction.; Artists' models -- Fiction.; Women painters -- Fiction.; Sisters -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "The story is told in the absorbing and lyrical voice of Mary Cassatt's sister Lydia, as she poses for five of her sister's most unusual paintings (reproduced in this edition). Ill with Bright's disease and conscious of her approaching death, Lydia contemplates her world with courage, openness, and passion. As she addresses and comes to accept her own position as her sister's model, she asks stirring questions about love and art's capacity to remember."--BOOK JACKET.