The Fifth Avenue Artists Society, Joy Callaway
The Fifth Avenue Artists Society, Joy Callaway
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The Fifth Avenue Artists Society
A Novel

Author: Joy Callaway

Narrator: Jenna Lamia

Unabridged: 13 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 05/31/2016


Synopsis

The Bronx, 1891. Virginia Loftin, the boldest of four artistic 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 brother’s writer friend John Hopper’s Fifth Avenue mansion. Among painters, musicians, actors, and writers, Ginny returns to herself, even blooming under the handsome, enigmatic John’s 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 salon’s bright lights may be obscuring some dark shadows. Torn between two worlds that aren’t quite as she’d imagined them, Ginny will realize how high the stakes are for her family, her writing, and her chance at love.

About Joy Callaway

Joy Callaway lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with her family. The Fifth Avenue Artists Society is her first novel.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Annette

Belle époque of NYC comes alive through the Society gatherings of many artists and writers textured with music played on the piano setting a very atmospheric background to already alive scene of hopeful artists, musicians and writers; reflecting an era of hope and joy. The author brings a story based......more

I was lucky enough to read a draft of this book. I can’t recommend it enough. It’s one of those books that will stick with me. Beautiful story and lovely writing. It’s timeless.......more

Goodreads review by Cindy

The Fifth Avenue Artists Society is an enthralling glimpse into New York City literary and artistic society in the 1890’s. Virginia Loftin, an aspiring writer, is one of five children whose family has been struggling financially ever since their father died several years before. The family resides i......more