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008    110722s2012    nyu           000 0 eng   
010      2011027708 
020    9781594488139|qhardback 
020    1594488134|qhardback 
035    (OCoLC)706018488 
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050 00 PS3601.V466|bL37 2012 
082 00 813/.6|222 
084    FIC014000|aFIC019000|2bisacsh 
100 1  Avery, Ellis. 
245 14 The last nude /|cEllis Avery. 
264  1 New York :|bRiverhead Books,|c2012. 
300    310 pages ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
520    "A stunning story of love, sexual obsession, treachery, 
       and tragedy, about an artist and her most famous muse in 
       Paris between the world wars. 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. Inspired by real events in de 
       Lempicka's history, The Last Nude is a tour de force of 
       historical imagination. Ellis Avery gives the reader a 
       tantalizing window into a lost Paris, an age already 
       vanishing as the inexorable forces of history close in on 
       two tangled lives. Spellbinding and provocative, this is a
       novel about genius and craft, love and desire, regret and,
       most of all, hope that can transcend time and 
       circumstance. "--|cProvided by publisher. 
520    "A novel by the author of The Teahouse Fire about an 
       artist and a young American woman beginning in 1920's 
       Paris"--|cProvided by publisher. 
600 10 Lempicka, Tamara de,|d1898-1980|vFiction. 
650  0 Women painters|vFiction. 
650  0 Young women|vFiction. 
650  0 Americans|zFrance|zParis|vFiction. 
650  0 Artists' models|vFiction. 
651  0 Paris (France)|vFiction. 
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