Review: Claude and Camille

"He always began in apprehension.  If it worked, there would be a time when the painting took him, when it reached out and he became it, when he smelled of oil and mineral spirits, when he and the air became one."

Claude and Camille , Stephanie Cowell

Claude and Camille, by Stephanie Cowell, was published in April of 2010 and is 352 pages.  It is the story of the impressionist painter, Monet, his love and muse, Camille Donceaux, and his rise to prominence .  It spans most of his life, finely...