The Adventures of Allegra Fullerton, Or, A Memoir of Startling and Amusing Episodes from Itinerant Life

Résumé du livre

Begiebing once again demonstrates his masterful command of historical fiction, vividly re-creating another century on the page. The daily life of New England and Italy in the 1830s and 1840s--especially the circumstances of an itinerant portrait painter and struggling artist--is rendered in rich and authentic detail. And Allegra's own consciousness is very much the product of her era, even as she struggles constantly to transcend the limited role that society offers her. Infused with picaresque humor and adventure, with meditations on art and freedom, and with the captivating, intelligent voice of Allegra herself, The Adventures of Allegra Fullerton is an engrossing novel.