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Eunice Lipton was a fledging art historian when she first became intrigued by Victorine Meurent, the nineteenth-century model who appeared in Edouard Manet's most famous paintings, only to vanish from history in a haze of degrading hearsay. But had this bold and spirited beauty really descended into prostitution, drunkenness, and early death -- or did her life, hidden from history, take a different course altogether? Eunice Lipton's search for...

In May 1938, a young man from the Bronx informs his parents that he is leaving for the Catskills to begin his new job as a waiter. Instead, he sails for Europe to join the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War. A Distant Heartbeat tells a tale of passion and heroism, centred on a fierce competition between brothers, missing letters, and the unforeseen results of family betrayal.

Following her well-received Alias Olympia, Eunice Lipton takes us on a sensual journey through her love/hate relationship with living in France, as an art historian, a Jew, and a sybarite who needs a dose of sensuality, which daily life Paris gives her, even as she examines the darker side of her relationship with her second home.