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Last Nude by Ellis Avery (2012, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-101594486476
ISBN-139781594486470
eBay Product ID (ePID)102828412
Product Key Features
Book TitleLast Nude
Number of Pages352 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicContemporary Women, Romance / Historical / General, Literary, Historical, Romance / Lgbt / Lesbian
Publication Year2012
GenreFiction
AuthorEllis Avery
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight9.9 Oz
Item Length7.9 in
Item Width5.2 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition22
TitleLeadingThe
Reviews"[An] amazing book . . . wholly original and engrossing." -- The Boston Globe " The Last Nude breaks important ground for literature, and does so with exuberance, skill, and grace." -- San Francisco Chronicle "A compulsively readable novel." -- The Washington Post "A taut, elegant novel . . . [Avery's] prose sings." -- MORE Magazine "Seductive and compelling, the novel is painted with as much drama and precision as one of Lempicka's canvases." -- The Daily Beast "A sly, sleekly written stereograph of art, desire, and desperation in Paris in the '20s, The Last Nude brings Rafaela to electric life, much as Tamara de Lempicka did when she painted her." --Alexander Chee, author of Edinburgh " The Last Nude is a remarkable novel: at once a seductive evocation of Lost Generation Paris, a faithful literary rendering of Tamara de Lempicka's idiosyncratic and groundbreaking art, and a vibrant, intelligent, affecting story in its own right. It's also smoking hot." --Emily Barton, author of Brookland "Ellis Avery transports the reader on a fast-paced magic-carpet ride to Paris between the world wars, a time when artists, patrons, and models fused the business of sex and art, with deeply painful results." --Aaron Hamburger, author of Faith for Beginners " The Last Nude carries us through one of the most fascinating and turbulent periods in modern art, and into the minds and bodies of two of art history's most riveting heroines. With prose and imagery that are both lyrical and unabashedly sensual, Ellis Avery breathes life and depth into famed artist's muse Rafaela, tracing her rocky but thrilling path from lost girl to Lost Generation icon, and laying bare acts of love, desire and betrayal with all the assuredness of a master artist herself." --Jennifer Cody Epstein, author of The Painter from Shanghai, "[An] amazing book . . . wholly original and engrossing." -- The Boston Globe " The Last Nude breaks important ground for literature, and does so with exuberance, skill, and grace." -- San Francisco Chronicle "A compulsively readable novel." -- The Washington Post "A taut, elegant novel . . . [Avery's] prose sings." -- MORE Magazine "Seductive and compelling, the novel is painted with as much drama and precision as one of Lempicka's canvases." -- The Daily Beast "A sly, sleekly written stereograph of art, desire, and desperation in Paris in the '20s, The Last Nude brings Rafaela to electric life, much as Tamara de Lempicka did when she painted her." --Alexander Chee, author of Edinburgh " The Last Nude is a remarkable novel: at once a seductive evocation of Lost Generation Paris, a faithful literary rendering of Tamara de Lempicka's idiosyncratic and groundbreaking art, and a vibrant, intelligent, affecting story in its own right. It's also smoking hot." --Emily Barton, author of Brookland "Ellis Avery transports the reader on a fast-paced magic-carpet ride to Paris between the world wars, a time when artists, patrons, and models fused the business of sex and art, with deeply painful results." --Aaron Hamburger, author of Faith for Beginners " The Last Nude carries us through one of the most fascinating and turbulent periods in modern art, and into the minds and bodies of two of art history's most riveting heroines. With prose and imagery that are both lyrical and unabashedly sensual, Ellis Avery breathes life and depth into famed artist's muse Rafaela, tracing her rocky but thrilling path from lost girl to Lost Generation icon, and laying bare acts of love, desire and betrayal with all the assuredness of a master artist herself." --Jennifer Cody Epstein, author of The Painter from Shanghai, "[An] amazing book... wholly original and engrossing." -- The Boston Globe " The Last Nude breaks important ground for literature, and does so with exuberance, skill, and grace." -- San Francisco Chronicle "A compulsively readable novel." -- The Washington Post "A taut, elegant novel... [Avery's] prose sings." -- MORE Magazine "Seductive and compelling, the novel is painted with as much drama and precision as one of Lempicka's canvases." -- The Daily Beast "A sly, sleekly written stereograph of art, desire, and desperation in Paris in the '20s, The Last Nude brings Rafaela to electric life, much as Tamara de Lempicka did when she painted her." --Alexander Chee, author of Edinburgh " The Last Nude is a remarkable novel: at once a seductive evocation of Lost Generation Paris, a faithful literary rendering of Tamara de Lempicka's idiosyncratic and groundbreaking art, and a vibrant, intelligent, affecting story in its own right.It's also smoking hot." --Emily Barton, author of Brookland "Ellis Avery transports the reader on a fast-paced magic-carpet ride to Paris between the world wars, a time when artists, patrons, and models fused the business of sex and art, with deeply painful results." --Aaron Hamburger, author of Faith for Beginners " The Last Nude carries us through one of the most fascinating and turbulent periods in modern art, and into the minds and bodies of two of art history's most riveting heroines. With prose and imagery that are both lyrical and unabashedly sensual, Ellis Avery breathes life and depth into famed artist's muse Rafaela, tracing her rocky but thrilling path from lost girl to Lost Generation icon, and laying bare acts of love, desire and betrayal with all the assuredness of a master artist herself." --Jennifer Cody Epstein, author of The Painter from Shanghai, "[An] amazing book . . . wholly original and engrossing." - The Boston Globe " The Last Nude breaks important ground for literature, and does so with exuberance, skill, and grace." - San Francisco Chronicle "A compulsively readable novel." - The Washington Post "A taut, elegant novel . . . [Avery's] prose sings." - MORE Magazine "Seductive and compelling, the novel is painted with as much drama and precision as one of Lempicka's canvases." - The Daily Beast "A sly, sleekly written stereograph of art, desire, and desperation in Paris in the '20s, The Last Nude brings Rafaela to electric life, much as Tamara de Lempicka did when she painted her." -Alexander Chee, author of Edinburgh " The Last Nude is a remarkable novel: at once a seductive evocation of Lost Generation Paris, a faithful literary rendering of Tamara de Lempicka's idiosyncratic and groundbreaking art, and a vibrant, intelligent, affecting story in its own right. It's also smoking hot." -Emily Barton, author of Brookland "Ellis Avery transports the reader on a fast-paced magic-carpet ride to Paris between the world wars, a time when artists, patrons, and models fused the business of sex and art, with deeply painful results." -Aaron Hamburger, author of Faith for Beginners " The Last Nude carries us through one of the most fascinating and turbulent periods in modern art, and into the minds and bodies of two of art history's most riveting heroines. With prose and imagery that are both lyrical and unabashedly sensual, Ellis Avery breathes life and depth into famed artist's muse Rafaela, tracing her rocky but thrilling path from lost girl to Lost Generation icon, and laying bare acts of love, desire and betrayal with all the assuredness of a master artist herself." -Jennifer Cody Epstein, author of The Painter from Shanghai
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
Dewey Decimal813/.6
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., 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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- Mar 14, 2018
Well researched imagined story of Tamara De Lempicka
Ellis Avery brings us to Paris in the 20's. The imagined story behind the artist Tamara De Lempicka and her model Rafaela. The story is told mostly from Rafaela's perspective and later De Lempicka, as an old woman, completes the book. A young, sometimes prostitute, Rafaela becomes Lempicka's nude model and lover. Read it carefully and slowly to absorb Paris in the 20's complete with the circle of American ex-patriots of the time: Gertrude Stein, Hemingway and more. It might be fun to look up some of Lempicka's genius art works before reading the book. Well done Ms. Avery!Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
