“The Marriage of Opposites” is a historical romance novel by Alice Hoffman which recounts the life of Rachel Pissarro, and the early years of her son, future Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro. "The Marriage of Opposites" deals with important themes such as feminism, duty, Judaism, marriage of opposites, and hypocrisy as Rachel comes to oppose her son's decision to marry a Catholic girl for love years after struggling for the same right to marry her husband out of love.
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Human loss, frailties and fears, and the routines of everyday life stood on its head with a touch of magical realism--these qualities in part delineate the boundaries of the fictional landscape create...
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Alice Hoffman developed a taste for the magical at an early age from reading Grimm's fairy tales and stories by Ray Bradbury; an affinity for magic permeates all of her fiction. Her novels, short stor...
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Alice Hoffman
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