by Alice Hoffman · Simon & Schuster · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781471112102
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«The Marriage of Opposites» is the historical novel by Alice Hoffman, published by Simon & Schuster in paperback (369 pages, in English).
On the island of St. Thomas in the nineteenth century, Rachel, from the refugee Jewish community, dreams of Paris. Married for convenience, she falls in love with Frédéric, her husband's nephew, in a forbidden romance that scandalizes her family and affects her son Camille Pissarro, future Impressionist painter.
Nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award for historical fiction in 2015; the volume includes bibliographic references.
For readers of historical fiction, literary fiction and reading groups, especially those seeking stories of women and the origins of Impressionism.
Alice Hoffman is an American novelist and young-adult and children's writer, best known for her 1995 novel Practical Magic, which was adapted for a 1998 film of the same name and went on to spawn a media franchise. Many of her works fall into the genre of magic realism and contain elements of magic, irony, and non-standard romances and relationships.
