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Praise for Cézanne’s Quarry by
Barbara Corrado Pope

In fewer than 400 pages, first time novelist Pope skillfully explores the subjugation and abuse of women in the nineteenth century; the injustices of the French legal system; the conflict between Darwinian philosophy and established religious belief; and Cézanne’s art, love life, and depressed personality. . . . this story of tortured love and repressed violence resembles Iain Pears at his darkest and Arturo Pérez-Reverte’s The Flanders Panel (1994) in tone and thematic depth.
—Jen Baker, Booklist, May 2008
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April 24, 2009
Meeting Aline Cézanne, Paul Cézanne’s great granddaughter

 
Until a few months ago, all of my encounters with Cézannes had been on museum walls or in books or in my own imagining of the great painter in the aftermath of an obsessive love affair. That was until I opened an email from a real life Cézanne who had read Cézanne’s Quarry and asked [...]

Cézanne's Quarry:
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Cezanne's Quarry by Barbara Corrado Pope, available at Amazon.com August 1885. Aix-en-Provence. The body of a beautiful woman lies on the floor of a sun-baked quarry, a fragment of painted canvas shivering on a thorny branch nearby. Could Paul Cézanne be Solange Vernet's killer? Read More...