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Painted Lives

by Charlotte Vale Allen · 1990

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Mattie Sylvester, a widow of one of America's most celebrated painters, reveals the sordid truth of the past, and of her husband, to her secretary.

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1990s1990sMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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medium · 268 pages

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