Maureen Gibbon is the author of two previous novels. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in the New York Times, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Playboy, Byliner, and elsewhere. She lives in Park Rapids, Minnesota.
"An intense and erotic depiction, this novel explores the legacy of
artist, muse, and masterpiece."
*Harper’s Bazaar*
"You’ll be caught up in the rich and sensuous world that Gibbon’s
weaves right from the beginning."
*InStyle*
"Wonderful…[Gibbon] takes readers on a mesmerizing, erotic journey
not only to another time and place, but inside the mind of an
artist…an insightful and riveting account."
*Publishers Weekly*
"Very few writers, living or dead, can convey the progress, pains,
and pleasures of the sensual life as fully, vividly, and
unapologetically as Maureen Gibbon."
*Amy Grace Loyd, author of The Affairs of Others*
"Maureen Gibbon’s Victorine is a fearless working girl with sharp
wits and calloused hands who ‘wants and wants’ and follows that
wanting right out of one life and into another. You will feel her
losses and her triumphs as though they were your own—and the next
time you look at Manet’s Olympia she will look right back at
you."
*Alyssa Harad, author of Coming to My Senses*
"No one evokes the raw, confusing desire of young women with crappy
jobs, threadbare clothes, and a lusty eye better than Maureen
Gibbon does, and with Paris Red she has distilled and bottled it:
every sentence is fragrant with passion."
*Maud Newton, author of America’s Ancestry Craze*
"A rare treasure: a powerfully written novel with a sensual,
fierce, intelligent heroine. Gibbon’s language is muscular and
precise and gorgeous, and she evokes a Paris so viscerally real, I
could taste the potato soup, smell the smoke and paint, and feel
Victorine inhabiting her own skin as she discovers her powers. What
an amazing book."
*Kate Christensen, author of Blue Plate Special and The Astral*
"Maureen Gibbon brings to life a Paris charged with erotic
immediacy and honesty. The novel illuminates the transformative
nature of art and is engrossing with sensual details. Amazing."
*Cara Black, author of Murder Below Montparnasse*
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