{"product_id":"claude-camille-a-novel-of-monet","title":"Claude \u0026 Camille: A Novel of Monet","description":"\u003cb\u003eA vividly-rendered portrait of both the rise of Impressionism and of the artist at the center of the movement, \u003ci\u003eClaude and Camille\u003c\/i\u003e is above all a love story of the highest romantic order.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the mid-nineteenth century, a young man named Claude Monet decided that he would rather endure a difficult life painting landscapes than take over his father's nautical supplies business in a French seaside town. Against his father's will, and with nothing but a dream and an insatiable urge to create a new style of art that repudiated the Classical Realism of the time, he set off for Paris. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut once there he is confronted with obstacles: an art world that refused to validate his style, extreme poverty, and a war that led him away from his home and friends. But there were bright spots as well: his deep, enduring friendships with men named Renoir, Cézanne, Pissarro, Manet--a group that together would come to be known as the Impressionists, and that supported each other through the difficult years. Even more illuminating was his lifelong love, Camille Doncieux, a beautiful, upper-class Parisian girl who threw away her privileged life to be by the side of the defiant painter and embrace the lively Bohemian life of their time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHis muse, his best friend, his passionate lover, and the mother to his two children, Camille stayed with Monet--and believed in his work--even as they lived in wretched rooms and often suffered the indignities of destitution. But Camille had her own demons--secrets that Monet could never penetrate--including one that when eventually revealed would pain him so deeply that he would never fully recover from its impact.","brand":"Crown Publishing Group (NY)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51943485145319,"sku":"9780307463227","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_cd3175cf-66a3-4c8a-a48e-99422e3aa064.jpg?v=1775323903","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/claude-camille-a-novel-of-monet","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}