![]() ![]() In exploring Lee's complicated and fascinating history, Whitney Scharer has brought a brilliant and pioneering artist out of the shadow of a man's story and into the light. Richly detailed and filled with a cast of famous characters, The Age of Light is a captivating historical novel about ambition, love, and the personal price of making art. But as Lee asserts herself and moves from being a muse to an artist, Man's jealousy spirals out of control, and their mutual betrayals threaten to destroy them both. As their personal and professional lives become further entwined, Lee is consumed by two desires: to become a famous photographer and to have a healthy and loving relationship. ![]() ![]() ![]() Though he initially wants to use her as a model, Lee is determined to become Man's photography assistant instead. An egotistical, charismatic force, Lee is drawn to him immediately. There she catches the eye of the famous Surrealist artist Man Ray. Lee Miller has abandoned her life in New York and a modelling career at Vogue to pursue her dream of becoming a photographer. Gorgeous and talented, Lee has left behind a successful modelling career at Vogue to pursue her dream of being an artist. For fans of Mrs Hemingway and The Paris Wife, Whitney Scharers The Age of Light is the riveting, vivid and powerful story of the photographer Lee Miller and her lover, Man Ray. This is a powerful, sensual and gripping portrait of the forging of an artist's soul.' Madeleine Miller, author of Circe `I'd rather take a photograph than be one,' says Lee Miller, shortly after she arrives in Paris in 1929. `Whitney Scharer's storytelling is utterly immersive and gorgeous in its details. ![]()
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