The Resource The imperial wife, Irina Reyn
The imperial wife, Irina Reyn
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The item The imperial wife, Irina Reyn represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Nesmith Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- "The Imperial Wife follows the lives of two women, one in contemporary New York City and the other in eighteenth-century Russia. Tanya Kagan, a specialist in Russian art at a top New York auction house, is trying to entice Russia's wealthy oligarchs to bid on the biggest sale of her career, The Order of Saint Catherine, while making sense of the sudden and unexplained departure of her husband. As questions arise over the provenance of the Order and auction fever kicks in, Reyn takes us into the world of Catherine the Great, the infamous 18th-century woman who may have owned the priceless artifact, and who it turns out faced many of the same issues Tanya wrestles with in her own life. The Imperial Wife asks what female ambition means, today and in the past, and whether a marriage can withstand an ambitious wife"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Extent
- 276 pages
- Isbn
- 9781250076038
- Label
- The imperial wife
- Title
- The imperial wife
- Statement of responsibility
- Irina Reyn
- Title variation
- The imperial wife
- Title variation remainder
- a novel
- Subject
-
- Catherine, II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796 -- Fiction
- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Painting -- Collectors and collecting
- Painting -- Collectors and collecting -- Fiction
- Self-actualization (Psychology) in women
- Self-actualization (Psychology) in women -- Fiction
- Biographical fiction
- Self-realization in women -- Fiction
- Women art dealers
- Women art dealers -- Fiction
- Self-realization in women
- Catherine, II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "The Imperial Wife follows the lives of two women, one in contemporary New York City and the other in eighteenth-century Russia. Tanya Kagan, a specialist in Russian art at a top New York auction house, is trying to entice Russia's wealthy oligarchs to bid on the biggest sale of her career, The Order of Saint Catherine, while making sense of the sudden and unexplained departure of her husband. As questions arise over the provenance of the Order and auction fever kicks in, Reyn takes us into the world of Catherine the Great, the infamous 18th-century woman who may have owned the priceless artifact, and who it turns out faced many of the same issues Tanya wrestles with in her own life. The Imperial Wife asks what female ambition means, today and in the past, and whether a marriage can withstand an ambitious wife"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Reyn, Irina
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3618.E95
- LC item number
- I47 2016
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Catherine
- Catherine
- Women art dealers
- Painting
- Self-actualization (Psychology) in women
- Self-realization in women
- Painting
- Self-actualization (Psychology) in women
- Self-realization in women
- Women art dealers
- Label
- The imperial wife, Irina Reyn
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Extent
- 276 pages
- Isbn
- 9781250076038
- Lccn
- 2016001230
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
- (OCoLC)ocn918994730
- Label
- The imperial wife, Irina Reyn
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Extent
- 276 pages
- Isbn
- 9781250076038
- Lccn
- 2016001230
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
- (OCoLC)ocn918994730
Subject
- Catherine, II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796 -- Fiction
- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Painting -- Collectors and collecting
- Painting -- Collectors and collecting -- Fiction
- Self-actualization (Psychology) in women
- Self-actualization (Psychology) in women -- Fiction
- Biographical fiction
- Self-realization in women -- Fiction
- Women art dealers
- Women art dealers -- Fiction
- Self-realization in women
- Catherine, II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796
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