THE LAST NUDE: A Novel (Proof)
by Avery, Ellis
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- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1594488134
- ISBN 13
- 9781594488139
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Synopsis
“As erotic and powerful as the paintings that inspired it.”—Emma Donoghue, author of Room Paris, 1927. One day in July, a young American named Rafaela Fano gets into the car of a coolly dazzling stranger, the Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka. Struggling to support herself, Rafaela agrees to model for the artist, a dispossessed Saint Petersburg aristocrat with a murky past. The two become lovers, and Rafaela inspires Tamara’s most iconic Jazz Age images, among them her most accomplished—and coveted—works of art. A season as the painter’s muse teaches Rafaela some hard lessons: Tamara is a cocktail of raw hunger and glittering artifice. And all the while, their romantic idyll is threatened by history’s darkening tide. A tour de force of historical imagination, The Last Nude is about genius and craft, love and desire, regret and, most of all, hope that can transcend time and circumstance.
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 56355
- Title
- THE LAST NUDE: A Novel (Proof)
- Author
- Avery, Ellis
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1594488134
- ISBN 13
- 9781594488139
- Publisher
- Riverhead Books, 2011
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2011
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