{"product_id":"9780061579509","title":"The Fountain of St. James Court; or, Portrait of the Artist as an Old Woman","description":"By: Sena Jeter Naslund     \u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/em\u003ebestselling author Sena Jeter Naslund explores the artistic processes and lives of creative women in her groundbreaking literary opus \u003cem\u003eThe Fountain of St. James Court; or Portrait of the Artist as an Old Woman\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSena Jeter Naslund's inspiring novel-within-a-novel depicts the lives of both a fictional contemporary writer and a historic painter whose works now hang in the great museums of Europe and America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe story opens at midnight beside a beautifully illumined fountain of Venus Rising from the Sea. Kathryn Callaghan has just finished her novel about painter Élisabeth Vigée-LeBrun, a survivor of the French Revolution hated for her sympathetic portraits of Marie Antoinette. Though still haunted by the story she has written, Kathryn must leave the eighteenth-century European world she has researched and made vivid in order to return to her own life as an American in 2012.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNaslund's spellbinding new novel presents the reader with an alternate version of The Artist: a woman of age who has created for herself, against enormous odds, a fulfilling life of thoroughly realized achievement.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Morrow Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"US - Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":48095196086499,"sku":"DTRHCUS-9780061579509","price":99.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1778\/4925\/files\/9780061579509.jpg?v=1770697537","url":"https:\/\/buybookbook.com\/zh\/products\/9780061579509","provider":"買書書 BuyBookBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}