The painted girls / Cathy Marie Buchanan.
Author: Buchanan, Cathy Marie.
Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2013.
ISBN: 9781594486241 (hbk.)
1594486247 (hbk.)
Description: 357 p. ; 24 cm.
Subject: Sisters France Fiction.
Teenage girls Fiction.
Ballet dancers Fiction.
Artists' models Fiction.
Paris (France) History 1870-1940 Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Notes: "A novel"--Jacket.
Summary: In belle époque Paris, the Van Goethem sisters struggle for survival after the sudden death of their father, a situation that prompts young Marie's ballet training and her introduction to a genius painter.