The Last Nude Avery EllisPaperback
The Last Nude Avery EllisPaperback As erotic and powerful as the paintings that inspired it. One day in July, a young American named Rafaela Fano gets into the car of a coolly dazzling stranger, the…
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The Last Nude Avery EllisPaperback
As erotic and powerful as the paintings that inspired it. 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. Emma Donoghue, author of RoomParis, 1927.
The two become lovers, and Rafaela inspires Tamara s most iconic Jazz Age images, among them her most accomplished and coveted works of art. Struggling to support herself, Rafaela agrees to model for the artist, a dispossessed Saint Petersburg aristocrat with a murky past. 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