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The Last Nude
The Last Nude | Ellis Avery
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As erotic and powerful as the paintings that inspired it.Emma Donoghue, author of Room 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.
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tphil10283
The Last Nude | Ellis Avery
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It‘s an entertaining read about wealthy people in Paris mostly during the 1920s. It‘s divided by the pov of a seventeen year old American woman that ran away to Paris to avoid an arraigned marriage in Sicily and a Russian aristocratic painter that fled to Paris during the Russian revolution. It is a love story that dwells on the commodification of youth and sexuality to a large extent. I don‘t think much has changed.

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MicheleinPhilly
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This font is like 6 point. So I either need to hold it up to my nose or pick something else. 👵🏼

AlaMich Helpful hint: you can buy truckloads of cheaters at the dollar store. I finally caved 😟 7y
AlaMich @MicheleinPhilly Those cheap reading glasses...you can get them at drugstores too, but they are easily lost, so now I buy 'em for a buck at Dollar Tree 7y
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MicheleinPhilly @AlaMich AH! I get it now. ☺️ This font is seriously ridiculous. I feel like I need a magnifying glass. 7y
tracyrowanreads @MicheleinPhilly is right. Those things are great and way cheaper than prescription glasses. 7y
AlaMich @tracyrowanreads Cheater Reader Needers Unite!! 🤓 7y
tracyrowanreads @AlaMich is correct, I mean. LOL, I need glasses. 😁😁😁😁 7y
Megabooks I hate it when it's that small! 7y
MicheleinPhilly @Booksandcooks And with the amount of white space on each page, they easily could have bumped it up a few points! I am irrationally angry over a book that I got for free at a librarians' conference. ☺️ 7y
Megabooks @MicheleinPhilly I don't feel your anger is irrational. 6 pt font is RIDICULOUS! Yes I'm screaming. 😤😂 (edited) 7y
LeahBergen This infuriates me. 😠 7y
ValerieAndBooks I bailed on this one...even though I love books about art/artists. Just couldn't get into it. Maybe the font was subconsciously bothering me 🤔? 7y
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Kathrin
The Last Nude | Ellis Avery
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I really enjoyed this piece of historical fiction set in 1920s Paris. The two female main characters were solid in their thoughts and actions.

I would have given this book 4 stars if the last piece out of Tamara's perspective set 50 years later would have been left out. I didn't think that this section helped the story at all.

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bookwrm526
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So, I couldn't think of anything for today's #feistyfeb #artdeco prompt besides Gatsby, so I did a little research and found this one, which looks interesting! I love historical fiction that is essentially a novelization of real peoples' lives, and this artist sounds like an intriguing figure. Has anyone read it?

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MicheleinPhilly
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I picked this one up at a library conference maybe 3 years ago...Poor, neglected, unread books. I will read all of you eventually, I swear! ❤️ #seasonsreadings2016 #artrelated

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WellReadCatLady
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