Monet & Oscar

<p>It's 1920 and an aging Claude Monet struggles against approaching blindness declining health and depression over losing loved ones while fighting to complete his greatest masterpieces the Grande Decorations. Enter a young American soldier who takes him on a journey through his long life for one last look before it's over. Oscar helps Monet revisit the beginnings of his career his struggles with the art establishment the formation of the Impressionist movement his rise to fame and success and his lost loves. Throughout it Oscar falls in love with Monet's extended family and a young artist from Chicago as he nurtures Monet's Garden and Lily Pond. </p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(48 48 48 1)>This is an enthralling and beautiful story filled with art love passion self-discovery and a reconciliation with the past. Set against the backdrop of Monet's famous garden at Giverny France this book offers a new historically accurate depiction of Monet told through the eyes of a fictional character Oscar.</span></p><p><em>Monet & Oscar: The Essence of Light</em> reveals the personal life of one of your most beloved painters. </p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(48 48 48 1)>It was the end of WWI when Oscar an American soldier in a French Army hospital learned of his mother's death. Oscar decides to remain in France with no reason to return home to find his father an impressionist painter whose identity he never knew. Oscar accepts a job working in Monet's world-famous garden at Giverny. Hopeful that the most renowned Impressionist can help him find his father Oscar searches for clues as Monet tired and disheartened by his deteriorating eyesight introduces him to his previous painting venues and Impressionist friends.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(48 48 48 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(48 48 48 1)> </span><span style=color: rgba(48 48 48 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Thus begins an enthralling and beautiful story filled with art love passion self-discovery and a reconciliation with the past. Set against the backdrop of Monet's famous garden at Giverny France this book offers a new historically accurate depiction of Monet told through the eyes of a fictional character Oscar.</span></p>