โ Scribed by Man Ray;Miller, Lee;Scharer, Whitney
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She went to Paris to start over, to make art instead of being made into it. **"Sweeping from the glamour of 1930's Paris through the battlefields of World War II and into the war's long shadow,The Age of Light is a startlingly modern love story and a mesmerizing portrait of a woman's self-transformation from muse into artist."--**Celeste Ng,New York Times bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere A captivating debut novel by Whitney Scharer, The Age of Light tells the story of Vogue model turned renowned photographer Lee Miller, and her search to forge a new identity as an artist after a life spent as a muse. "I'd rather take a photograph than be one," she declares after she arrives in Paris in 1929, where she soon catches the eye of the famous Surrealist Man Ray. Though he wants to use her only as a model, Lee convinces him to take her on as his assistant and teach her everything he knows. But Man Ray...
Miller, Lee, -- 1907-1977
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