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ISBN:	0451465822 (ISBN13: 9780451465825)
Edition Language:	English

The Beautiful American

Jeanne Mackin

Paperback | Pages: 384 pages

Rating: 3.83 | 2306 Users | 260 Reviews

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Title	:	The Beautiful American
Author	:	Jeanne Mackin
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 384 pages
Published	:	June 3rd 2014 by NAL
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Cultural. France. War. World War II. Art

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From Paris in the 1920s to London after the Blitz, two women find that a secret from their past reverberates through years of joy and sorrow ...

As recovery from World War II begins, expat American Nora Tours travels from her home in southern France to London in search of her missing sixteen-year-old daughter. There, she unexpectedly meets up with an old acquaintance, famous model-turned-photographer Lee Miller. Neither has emerged from the war unscathed. Nora is racked with the fear that her efforts to survive under the Vichy regime may have cost her daughter’s life. Lee suffers from what she witnessed as a war correspondent photographing the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps.

Nora and Lee knew each other in the heady days of late 1920s Paris, when Nora was giddy with love for her childhood sweetheart, Lee became the celebrated mistress of the artist Man Ray, and Lee’s magnetic beauty drew them all into the glamorous lives of famous artists and their wealthy patrons. But Lee fails to realize that her friendship with Nora is even older, that it goes back to their days as children in Poughkeepsie, New York, when a devastating trauma marked Lee forever. Will Nora’s reunion with Lee give them a chance to forgive past betrayals…and break years of silence to forge a meaningful connection as women who have shared the best and the worst that life can offer?

A novel of freedom and frailty, desire and daring, The Beautiful American portrays the extraordinary relationship between two passionate, unconventional women.

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I was fortunate enough to read an advance copy of this wonderful novel and I LOVED every word. MacKin takes you into the ex-pat world of many famous and fictional artists during the 20s in Paris and beyond, including the Blitz in London. Its a beautiful, touching story that's compulsively readable. Filled with rich characters and historical detail, I'm so excited for people to discover this wonderful novel and cannot wait to read more from her.

I was gifted a copy of this book during The Beautiful American blog tour, and once I began reading, I was immediately immersed in the setting and story. As a bit of background, let me just tell you I'm not an expert on famous artists and I rarely read biographies of artists. In fact, I had never heard of Lee Miller, the photographer central to this story. While this book is not a biography of Picasso, or Man Ray or Lee Miller, one comes away with the feeling of intimate knowledge of their

The Beautiful American is an elegantly written novel that explores the lives of two fascinating women whose paths' cross several times between childhood and middle-age. Their experiences will inspire you, make you smile, and leave you with a heavy heart. It's a journey not to be missed.Nora is an American living abroad in France but when her sixteen-year-old daughter turns up missing, Nora's search takes her to London. As her search continues where she runs into her old friend, Lee Miller. Lee

This was a well written entertaining novel about a time period that I've always found so romantic (between WWI and WWII). The main character is fictional, but she is friends with the real life Lee Miller. I knew nothing about Lee prior to this book, but am captivated by her feminist free spirit. Becoming a war correspondent is tough enough for women today, let alone 60+ years ago. Mackin does a good job presenting this woman outside of her own time, but essentially this is just an interesting

To be fair, I read this book after having finished a fantastic novel by the name of Circling the Sun by Paula McLain. Whenever a reader finishes a book she's thoroughly enjoyed, it becomes that much more difficult for the follow-up book to live up to the standard of the previous one. This is what I found with The Beautiful American. Perhaps my biggest complaint was that I found none of the characters in this historical fiction tale to be sympathetic. It wasn't until I read the discussion with

3.5 starsFull review to comeInteresting read, I just felt like something was missing...

"The Beautiful American" tells the story of Lee Miller, a 20th century model and photographer who became one of the well known faces of the Surrealist movement and the first female war correspondent during World War II.Told from the perspective of fictional character Nora Tours, the novel begins in Poughkeepsie, New York were both girls play together as children. They couldn't be more different though: Lee is the pampered daughter of the local factory owner while Nora is the gardener's daughter.