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The Last Nude

The Last Nude

Avery, Ellis

Paperback

General GLBTQIA FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 1594486476
ISBN13: 9781594486470
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Dec 31 2012
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.60
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
Spellbinding and provocative, The Last Nude is a novel about genius and craft, love and desire, regret and, most of all, hope that can transcend time and circumstance

Paris, 1927. In the heady years before the crash, financiers drape their mistresses in Chanel, while expatriates flock to the avant-garde bookshop Shakespeare and Company. 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 halt a downward slide toward prostitution, 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.

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