Peek Inside And Giveaway ~ Picasso’s Lovers by Jeanne Mackin

Posted: March 12, 2024 in Excerpt, giveaways, Historical
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Picasso’s Lovers

by Jeanne Mackin

 

 

Genre: Historical Fiction

Synopsis

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You know Pablo Picasso. Now meet the women behind the masterpieces. The women of Picasso’s life are glamorous and elusive, existing in the shadow of his fame – until, in the 1950’s, aspiring journalist Alana Olsen determines to bring one into the light and discovers a past complicated by secrets and intrique.

 

Enjoy this peek inside:

Gazes from Pablo Picasso are like brushstrokes. Some are long, lingering, full of texture and pigment. Some are short, shallow, even accidental. His gaze on me now falls somewhere between the two.

Once, his gaze would have found enough for an entire painting. He would have seen flesh, and the bone and muscle under the flesh, the question or certainty of the eyes. He would have seen past, present, and future and painted them in a way that made time irrelevant.

Yes, that was how he pained me. Everything and at once, all the angles and geometry of the body, and he made of me something eternal and always beautiful. That is what an artists can do for a woman. When most men looked at me, all I saw in their faces was desire, the urge to possess. When Pablo looked at me, his face filled with wonder waiting to be translated to lines and brushstrokes.

Spring. The second year of the Great War. I wasn’t twenty yet, and had returned from cold, starving Moscow, where a loaf of bread coast as much as a silk dress…Back to Paris for me!

When Pablo first saw me, I was sitting on the rim of the Wallace Fountain in Place Emile, face turned up to the sun like a basking cat, enjoying the fine day and wondering what adventure I might find…It was early summer. I had stolen a bunch of cherries at Les Halles and a roll, but my stomach rattled.

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About Author Jeanne Mackin:

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Jeanne Mackin is the author of several historical novels, including The Last Collection, which has been translated into five languages, and The Beautiful American, which won a CNY award for fiction. She has taught in the MFA Creative Writing program at Goddard College and won journalism awards, and is currently at work on her next novel.

Author Links: Website / Facebook / Twitter / Instagram

Purchase Link: Amazon

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Comments
  1. marcymeyer says:

    This sounds like a really interesting story. I love the cover.

  2. Thank you so much for featuring PICASSO’S LOVERS today!

  3. Anne says:

    A captivating and fascinating novel which is a real treasure. Picasso is intriguing.

  4. Melissa Cushing says:

    I am loving this sound of this book and am adding it to my Kindle Wish List 😉 I am saving for a new Kindle so this is perfect!

    • thanks, and hope you really enjoy it. It was wonderful for me to spend so much time reading about, and writing about, Picasso and his art…and his women, who weren’t pushovers!

  5. Rita Wray says:

    Sounds like a good book.

  6. Mary Preston says:

    Pablo Picasso does fascinate. Sounds wonderful.

  7. Wendy Hutton says:

    best wishes with the book

  8. Sounds like a wonderful read.

  9. Nancy says:

    I love the classic style of your book cover!

  10. Denise Duvall says:

    I have read several biographies on Picasso and love Ms. Mackin’s books. Another win for her!

  11. Wendy Hutton says:

    HAPPY PI DAY

  12. Wendy Hutton says:

    did you go to college for writing

  13. Daniel M says:

    looks like a fun one

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