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While New York careens toward modernity at the turn of the twentieth century, Clara Driscoll, publicly unrecognized by master glass artist, Louis Comfort Tiffany, conceives of making leaded glass lamps, designs nearly all of them, and builds a lively, multi-national women's studio within Tiffany Studios to make them. Developing a new feminist consciousness, Clara and The Tiffany Girls face the challenges inherent in female incursions in a male art industry, with Clara boldly leading a women's march to counter the men's strike intended to eliminate the women's department. Yearning equally for love and for recognition as a creator of unique art pieces in an atmosphere increasingly commercial, balancing the Gilded Age world of formal balls and opera with the immigrant poverty of the Lower East Side where some of her beloved girls live, and loving in different ways the five men in her life, including Tiffany himself, Clara, like many women, must decide what makes her most happy-- the professional world of her hands, or the personal world of her heart.
And as with her previous novels, Vreeland uses brilliant research to carefully re-construct this exciting time, and in doing so, truly breathes new life into a much beloved work of art.
More praise for Clara and Mr. Tiffany:
-"Vreeland's writing is so graceful, her research so exhaustive, that a reader is enfolded in the world of Tiffany and Driscoll....fascinating." -- Los Angeles Times
-"[H]ot as a glass factory...Give Vreeland credit for shedding light on a little-known slice of women's history." -- USA Today
-"You'll never look at a Tiffany lamp or window the same way." --Daily Candy National "Weekend Guide"
-"Fascinating."--Newark Star Ledger
-"Vreeland has done a good job describing the tensions within the business and between creative artistry and a desire for a personal life... An interesting book about a woman deservedly rescued from obscurity."--Fredericksburg, Va. Free Star
-"If you're a fiction reader, you are going to want to pick up at least one of these early 2011 novels." --The Christian Science Monitor, "5 Novels for the New Year"
-"The author of Girl in Hyacinth Blue here imagines a woman torn between art and love in a novel based on the real-life creator of the iconic Tiffany lamps." --O, The Oprah Magazine, "10 Titles to Pick Up Now"
