Bensley Lis - The Glimpse - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Liza Baker a rising star in the burgeoning Abstract Expressionist era finds herself sidelined when she gets pregnant and decides to have the child. Yet against conventional wisdom she's convinced she can have a successful career and be a good mother to her daughter Rouge. She takes a job teaching at a college and comes up against the harsh realities of the male - dominated art world. Unable to build a successful career she watches as her former lover whose work resembles hers skyrocket to fame. Liza develops a drinking problem and often brings home artist lovers she's met in the city. When Rouge meets Ben Fuller one of Liza's discarded lovers who subsequently fosters Rouge talent in photography the complexity of the mother - daughter relationship takes on the added charge of a competition between the two one that Liza tries to sabotage. THE Glimpse is a moving unsentimental tale of the charged New York art world of the 1950s and the relationship between a mother and daughter as they grapple with their relationship that becomes pivotal to their artwork.
Title: The Glimpse
Author(s): Bensley Lis
Publisher: Troubador Publishing
Barcode: 9781800462953
Pages: 328 Pages
Publication Date: 6/28/2021
Category: Historical Fiction