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Exciting news! The Hammock: A novel based on the true story of French painter James Tissot is now available as a print book – a paperback edition with an elegant and distinctive cover by the New York-based graphic designer for television and film, Emilie Misset.
THE HAMMOCK: A novel based on the true story of French painter James Tissot, portrays ten remarkable years in the life of James Tissot (1836 – 1902), who rebuilt – and then lost – his reputation in London. By 1870, at age 34, he had become a multi-millionaire celebrity with an opulent new Parisian villa and studio among aristocratic neighbors near the Arc de Triomphe. Handsome and charming, his friends included the painters James McNeill Whistler, Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, and John Everett Millais. When the Prussians attacked Paris that year, Tissot became a sharpshooter in the artists’ brigade defending the besieged capital. Then, after a bloody Communist rebellion fought virtually at the doorstep of his mansion, he fled to London. By the end of the decade, his pictures had pushed the boundaries of Victorian morality, and the British art establishment turned against him. THE HAMMOCK is a psychological portrait, exploring the forces that unwound the career of this complex man. Based on contemporary sources, the novel brings Tissot’s world alive in a story of war, art, Society glamour, love, scandal, and tragedy.
You can order the book here: The Hammock: A novel based on the true story of French painter James Tissot (356 pages; ISBN (paperback): 978-0578735221).
The ebook remains available at the same link and features 17 stunning, full color, high-resolution fine art images courtesy of the Bridgeman Art Library. The interactive images are embedded in the story as it unfolds.
(295 pages; ISBN (ePub): 978-0-615-68267-9). See http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009P5RYVE.
NOTE: If you do not have a Kindle e-reader, you may download free Kindle reading apps for PCs, Smartphones, tablets, and the Kindle Cloud Reader to read The Hammock: A novel based on the true story of French painter.
Since the ebook was published in 2012, I have blogged regularly for the past eight years on James Tissot’s life and work. Most of his large oil paintings are featured on my blog, and the illustrated Index to Posts can help you find them.
If you enjoy art and historical fiction and would like to escape to the Victorian era during the birth of Impressionism, you’ll enjoy The Hammock: A novel based on the true story of French painter James Tissot – and please share your review on my page on amazon.com, or at goodreads.com. It’s also a great gift for period drama lovers.
If you’ve read The Hammock and you’d like to learn more about the lives of the artists it portrays, see the Index to Posts on my blog. The posts share the true stories behind Tissot’s life, friends, and times, year by year, from his youth to his pre-war celebrity. Join me as I explore people and events prior to my novel’s opening in October 1870, during the Franco-Prussian War and the Siege of Paris, and other topics related to James Tissot and his art, such as James Tissot’s Model and Muse, Kathleen Newton, A Closer Look at Tissot’s “Hush! (The Concert)”, and Was James Tissot a Plagiarist?
Read worldwide, my blog combines previous scholarship with original research and discussions of Tissot’s work in public collections and at auction.
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