{"product_id":"costalegre-a-novel-inspired-by-peggy-guggenheim-and-her-daughter-pegeen-9781947793361","title":"Costalegre: A Novel Inspired by Peggy Guggenheim and Her Daughter, Pegeen","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Delightful ... In Lara, Maum has given a little-considered daughter a more hopeful future.\" ―Mona Simpson, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Maum's slender, intelligent Costalegre is about many things: art as spectacle and art as discipline; life as joke and life as tragedy; the role of unreason in paintings and politics. But most of all, it's about the youthful desire to be, in Lara's words, contemplated and considered ― to be, in short, loved.\" ―\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eGlamour\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Books of the Decade and a Best Book of Summer at AM New York, Moda Operandi, GOOP, \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSouthern Living\u003c\/i\u003e, and Thrillist.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is 1937, and Europe is on the brink of war. Hitler is circulating a most-wanted list of \"cultural degenerates\"--artists, writers, and thinkers whose work is deemed antithetical to the new regime. To prevent the destruction of her favorite art (and artists), the impetuous American heiress and modern art collector Leonora Calaway begins chartering boats and planes for an elite group of surrealists to Costalegre, a mysterious resort in the Mexican jungle. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe story of what happens to these artists when they reach their destination is told from the point of view of Lara, Leonora's neglected fifteen-year-old daughter. Forced from a young age to live with her mother's eccentric whims, tortured lovers, and entourage of gold-diggers, Lara suffers from emotional, educational, and geographical instability that a Mexican sojourn with surrealists isn't going to help. But when she meets the outcast Dadaist sculptor Jack Klinger, Lara thinks she might have found the understanding she so badly craves. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHeartbreaking and strange, \u003ci\u003eCostalegre\u003c\/i\u003e is inspired by the real-life relationship between the heiress Peggy Guggenheim and her daughter, Pegeen. Courtney Maum triumphs with this wildly imaginative and curiously touching story of a privileged teenager who has everything a girl could wish for--except a mother who loves her back.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Tin House\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/16\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781947793361\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.80h x 5.10w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2019 pg. 24\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/06\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/15\/2019 pg. 36\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2019 pg. 105\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/17\/2020 pg. 1\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Courtney Maum","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52732299641013,"sku":"9781947793361","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/costalegre-a-novel-inspired-by-peggy-guggenheim-and-her-daughter-pegeen-9781947793361","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}