03455cam a2200493 4500 2467787890 TxAuBib 20250601120000.0 ||||||s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781481593236 1481593234 8541ffb7-43cd-405f-9ac0-d2fde52db41c OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1011354 OverDrive (Product ID) 9781982407865 TxAuBib Buchanan, Cathy Marie. The Painted Girls [Libby Audiobook] : A Novel. Blackstone Publishing, 2013. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 337MB. nineteenth century. social class. 19th Century. Performance. Edgar Degas. sisters. Poverty. Ballet. France. dance. 1800s. opera. Paris. 1878. art. HTML:<p>Paris, 1878. Following the death of their father from overwork, the three van Goethem sisters find their lives upended. Without their father's wages, and with what little their mother earns as a laundress disappearing down the absinthe bottle, eviction from their single boarding room seems imminent. With few options for work available for a girl, bookish fourteen-year-old Marie and her younger sister Charlotte are dispatched to the Paris Opera, where for a scant seven francs a week, the girls will be trained to enter its famous ballet. Their older sister, stubborn and insolent seventeen-year-old Antoinette, dismissed from the ballet, finds herself launched into the orbit of ├ëmile Zola and the influence of his notorious naturalist masterpiece <i>L'Assommoir</i>—and into the arms of a young man who may turn out to be a murderer.</p> <p>Marie throws herself into dance, hoping her natural gift and hard work will enable her to escape her circumstances, but the competition to become one of the famous ├®toiles at whose feet flowers are thrown nightly is fierce, and Marie is forced to turn elsewhere to make money. Cripplingly self-conscious about her low-class appearance, she nonetheless finds herself modeling in the studio of Edgar Degas, where her image will forever be immortalized in his controversial sculpture <i>Little Dancer, Aged 14</i>. Antoinette, meanwhile, descends lower and lower in society and must make the choice between honest labor as a laundress and the more profitable avenues available to a young woman in the Paris demimonde—that is unless her love for the dangerous ├ëmile Abadie derails her completely.</p>Set at a moment of profound artistic, cultural, and societal change, <i>The Painted Girls</i> is ultimately a tale of two remarkable girls rendered uniquely vulnerable to the darker impulses of "civilized society." In the end, each will come to realize that her individual salvation, if not survival, lies with the other. Historical Fiction. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2025-07-31 20:00:03. Campbell, Cassandra. Whelan, Julia. Campbell, Danny. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=8541FFB7-43CD-405F-9AC0-D2FDE52DB41C&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)