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Susan Vreeland

LUNCHEON OF THE BOATING PARTY
Viking/Penguin, May 2007, hardcover; Spring 2008, paperback.
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Everyone knows this iconic Impressionist picture: a group of dashing young men in jerseys and boaters, and women in frilly dresses lounging in the dappled shade of a riverside restaurant near Paris on a Sunday afternoon. All the people in the picture were real Parisians of Renoir’s time—artists, journalists, actresses, friends—but what, apart from the artist’s urging, brought them all there that immortalized day? In the latest of her fictional excursions into the world of great art and its creators, Vreeland examines the mixture of relationships and motives that brought everyone together and in the process offers an unforgettable portrait of a cherished time and place.
Rights to Italy (Neri Pozza), Germany (Heyne Verlag), Holland (Bzztoh) Israel (Kineret) and Portugal (Emergencia).

PUBLISHED WORKS


GIRL IN HYACINTH BLUE
Makes one of Vermeer's luminous 17th century Dutch interiors the heart of a collection of linked stories.

BOOK SENSE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALIST. NY TIMES Bestseller—Over 500,000 copies in print. Book-Of-The-Month Club. Quality Paperback Book Club.

Rights to Australia (Hodder Headline), Brazil (Companhia das Letras), Denmark (Lindhardt & Ringhof), England (Headline), France (Belfond), Finland (Werner Soderstrom Oy), Germany (Heyne Verlag), Holland (Bzztoh), Israel (Kineret), Italy (Edizione Piemme), Japan (Hiroshi Hayakawa), Spain (Emece), Sweden (Bonniers)

Audio rights to HighBridge

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THE PASSION OF ARTEMISIA
Vreeland’s powerful novel re-imagines 17th century Italian painter Artemisia Genteleschi's life in passionately haunting detail.

Book of the Month Club, Quality Paperback Book Club Main Selection. BOOKSENSE #2 PICK FOR JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2003

Rights to England (Headline), Finland (Werner Soderstrom Oy), France (Belfond), Germany (Heyne Verlag)

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THE FOREST LOVER
Emily Carr was a pioneer in many ways: as a woman determined to live life her own way, in a time and place that frowned on that, as an artist determined to break free from the dead hand of English conservatism at the turn of the century and as a human being who cherished the Indians of the Canadian Northwest as artists and people in harmony with nature, rather than the heathen savages the church and the comfortable saw. Vreeland has written a passionate, often moving and ultimately triumphant tale of an unforgettable woman who gave up love, comfort and peace of mind for an inescapable inspiration.

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LIFE STUDIES
There really were ‘potato eaters’ in Van Gogh’s Holland, to whom he was an odd young man with red hair; an old gardener arranged the water lilies just so for Monet; and Cezanne’s portrait helped a young man grow into his life. In a series of deeply intuitive and penetrating stories, Vreeland looks at artists and the effect they have on people around them.

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Featured Books

LUNCHEON OF THE BOATING PARTY by Susan Vreeland
"A fully realized portrait of this groundbreaking painter...enlivened by Vreeland's understanding of the artistic mind." -Boston Herald

*Starred Review* Once again--to the delight of her legion of fans—the best-selling author…imaginatively uses art history as the basis for a carefully constructed historical novel…an amazingly engrossing reinvigoration of the lives of the individuals who modeled for Renoir… [a] riveting, complex novel. Booklist

LOOKING FOR SALVATION AT THE DAIRY QUEEN by Susan Gregg Gilmore
“If I had to make a comparison I would compare Gilmore to Fannie Flagg, but Gilmore more than holds her own. This is an unusually engaging novel by a very fine writer who knows exactly what she is doing.” -- Lee Smith, author of Saving Grace and On Agate Hill
HEARTBREAK TOWN by Marsha Moyer
“In Heartbreak Town, Marsha Moyer has drawn the world of East Texas so endearingly—it’s as though Lee Smith donned a pair of cowboy boots, put a trailer hitch on her pick up truck and started listening to Hank Williams.” -- Amy Wallen, author of MoonPies and Movie Stars
THE FIRST WAVE: A BILLY BOYLE WORLD WAR II MYSTERY by James R. Benn
"Benn’s hero is still wide-eyed and bushy-tailed in THE FIRST WAVE... but his character has deepened... spirited wartime storytelling." -- Marylin Stasio, New York Times "High-spirited... gripping... [a] lively story" -- Publisher's Weekly
THE LOST VAN GOGH by A.J. Zerries
"[A] smart, emotionally loaded, and strongly anchored art caper...Great action sequences, complicated characters, swanky settings, dramatic betrayals, and intriguing art history make for a suspenseful and provocative tale about the perplexing union of beauty and evil." Booklist *STAR*
NON-FICTION
SURFACES: VISUAL RESEARCH FOR ARCHITECTS, ARTISTS, AND DESIGNERS by Judy Juracek
"Without a doubt, these three volumes comprise an amazing collection of images and information that no theatre designer should be without... inspirational and functional, beautiful and practical." -Theatre Design & Technology
HUMBLE PIE: MUSINGS ON WHAT LIES BENEATH THE CRUST by Anne Dimock
"Anne Dimock is the Proust of pie and her remembrance of pies past is meant to inspire the pies to come. This is a lovely and elegant memoir." - Garrison Keillor



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