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Light

by Eva Figes · 1989

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"A day in the life of Claude Monet in the summer of 1900...a luminous prose poem of a novel...unhurried, richly descriptive, rarely ornamental or excessive—indeed, a kind of impressionism in words."

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Genre
historical fictionliterary fiction
Themes
art
Setting
England
Audience
adult
Length
short · 121 pages
Form
poetry

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