Alexandrie wants to be the best dancer she can, while her mother wants her to become a famous lorrette and send money home to her family. She shows an interest in taking dance lessons, which is a luxury – and that is where the conflict between her and her mother comes in. She helps her family with their pepper farm and doesn’t really expect much more than that. As Alexandrie is drawn deeper into Degas's art and Paris's darkest secrets, she will risk everything for her dreams of love and of becoming the ballet's star dancer”. An ambitious and enterprising farm girl, Alexandrie enters the prestigious Paris Opera ballet with hopes of catching the eye of one of the ballet's wealthy patrons-thereby securing not only her place in society, but her family's financial future.īut her plan is soon derailed when she falls in love with the enigmatic artist whose paintings of the private off-stage lives of the ballerinas scandalized society and revolutionized the art world. Kathryn Wagner transports readers to an era of light and movement with this fresh and vibrantly imagined portrait of the Impressionist artist Edgar Degas as told through the eyes of a young Parisian ballerina. “ In the city of lights, at the dawn of a new age, here is an unforgettable story of great love, great art-and the most painful choices of the heart.
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