Among them is Michael, the mesmeric copper-skinned youth, mercurial, attractive, wild: an artist in the making, he dreams of Paris, and the lure of a brand new art, Daguerreotype. 'hen I found Rice's work I absolutely loved how she took that genre and (.) made feel so contemporary and relevant' Sarah Pinborough, bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes ' in the great tradition of the gothic' Ramsey Campbell, bestselling author of The Hungry Moon In the days before the Civil War in the old French Quarter of New Orleans there lived the GENS DE COULEUR, the Free People of Colour, a fierce and proud people, descended from slaves and their French and Spanish owners, neither Black nor White, but caught between the two - free.
Among their number is Marcel, an artist in the making, also his gentle sister Marie and Anna Bella, a beautiful young courtesan. Set in New Orleans before the American Civil War, this is the story of the "Free People of Color", descended from slaves, and their French and Spanish owners. Description for The Feast of All Saints Paperback.
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