The Fifth Avenue Artists Society: A Novel

ISBN: 0062391615

Author: Callaway, Joy

Condition: New

The creative sisterhood of Little Women, the social scandal of Edith Wharton and the courtship mishaps of Jane Austen. . . . The Fifth Avenue Artists Society is delightful. - New York Daily NewsIn a family of four artistic sisters on the outskirts of Gilded Age New York high society, the oldest-an aspiring writer-is caught between the boy next door and a mysterious novelist who inducts her into Manhattans most elite artistic salon which has a seedy underbelly and secrets to hide.The Bronx, 1891. Virginia Loftin, the boldest of four sisters in a family living in genteel poverty, knows what she wants most: to become a celebrated novelist despite her gender, and to marry Charlie, the boy next door and her first love.When Charlie proposes instead to a woman from a wealthy family, Ginny is devastated; shutting out her family, she holes up and turns their story into fiction, obsessively rewriting a better ending. Though she works with newfound intensity, literary success eludes her-until she attends a salon hosted in her brothers writer friend John Hoppers Fifth Avenue mansion. Among painters, musicians, actors, and writers, Ginny returns to herself, even blooming under the handsome, enigmatic Johns increasingly romantic attentions.Just as she and her siblings have become swept up in the society, though, Charlie throws himself back into her path, and Ginny learns that the salons bright lights may be obscuring some dark shadows. Torn between two worlds that arent quite as shed imagined them, Ginny will realize how high the stakes are for her family, her writing, and her chance at love.