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Weeping Woman
Weeping Woman | Zoe Valdes
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Winner of the prestigious Azorin Prize for Fiction, the best-selling novel about love, sacrifice, and Picasso's mistress, Dora Maar. A writer resembling Zoe Valdesa Cuban exile living in Paris with her husband and young daughteris preparing a novel on the life of Dora Maar, one of the most promising artists in the Surrealist movement until she met Pablo Picasso. The middle-aged Picasso was already the god of the art world's avant-garde. Dora became his lover, muse, and ultimately, his victim. She became The Weeping Woman captured in his famous portrait, the mistress he betrayed with other mistress-muses, and their affair ended with her commitment to an asylum at the hands of Picasso's friends. The writer's research centers on a mysterious trip to Venice that Dora took fifteen years later, in the company of two young gay men who were admirers of Picasso, including the biographer James Lord. After this episode, Dora cut off contact with the world and secluded herself in her Paris apartment until her death. "After Picasso, God," she would say. What happened in Venice? The more the writer investigates, the more she finds herself implicated in a story of passion taken to the extremes. In "The Weeping Woman," prize-winning novelist Zoe Valdes narrates the journey of a woman who would do anything and everything for love. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fictionnovels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a "New York Times" bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home."
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monalyisha
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Today, I ran into the wrong staff person at the bookstore & lost the employee discount that was built-in to my account (not by me! I thought it was a forever parting gift! I‘ve had it for *years* now).

Pray for me. Weep for me. Drink for me. Lay flowers on my discount‘s grave. This is truly a Dark Day.

slategreyskies Awwww… how disappointing!! 😞 3y
Aims42 🥺😭I‘m sorry, that sucks!! 3y
Bookwormjillk Boo!! 3y
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xicanti A dark day indeed. 😭 3y
vivastory That's so disappointing! 3y
Megabooks Nooo!! I‘m sorry! 3y
marleed A sad day indeed :( 3y
Singout 😢 3y
smalldogs_bigbooks2419 That‘s just not right! If the owner has let you keep the discount, all of the employees should too. 😩 3y
monalyisha @smalldogs_bigbooks2419 It was a new-ish manager on a power trip (who, by the way, I trained! I did *not* teach her this! 😅). But now that the discount‘s gone, it won‘t be back. It‘s weird. The store is a little indie community hot-spot. Good in so many ways! But toxic in a lot of others. I have complicated feelings about it (& the people who run it). But I did think that allowing me to keep the discount was intentional & gracious. Alas. (edited) 3y
Crazeedi Aww that's such a bummer, a very sad day, my sympathies 😥 3y
Laughterhp Oh no! So upsetting! 3y
Ruthiella Well, it was good while it lasted. 😢 3y
Author_Natasha_Hughes_Smith I hope for a quick recovery. 😃 3y
mohni Hi 3y
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On page 1- already hooked. #hooked

Suet624 Jeepers!!! 7y
ValerieAndBooks Whoa! I'm very curious what you think when you're done. Stacking this. 7y
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BookishTrish
Weeping Woman | Zoe Valdes
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I wish I could better articulate why I loved this book, and why in finishing it, I immediately wanted to begin it again. Suffice it to say, this beautiful book made me wish I was a writer.

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Weeping Woman | Zoe Valdes
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I can't think of a better way to follow up reading a novel about Dora Maar than this

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Weeping Woman | Zoe Valdes

She sensed that something ugly was going to occur, and the foreboding pained her more than her suffering for what was going on every day.

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Weeping Woman | Zoe Valdes
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Sigh.... Please tel me third time is the charm #parentproblems

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Weeping Woman | Zoe Valdes
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Trying again to sneak in some reading before the littles awaken. Last time I got 5minutes in. I swear they sense me reading in their sleep....

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Weeping Woman | Zoe Valdes
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Up at six (before the kidlets awaken) to start this possibly meta fictional account of Dora Maar's life. So far it most resembles HHHH for art lovers.