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The Marriage Artist: A Novel

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Two mysterious deaths unlock one man's past and another's future in this moving tale of art, love, and history

When the wife of renowned art critic Daniel Lichtmann plunges to her death, she is not alone. Lying next to her is her suspected lover, Benjamin Wind, the very artist Daniel most championed. Tormented by questions about the circumstances of their deaths, Daniel ded...more

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Published October 26th 2010 by Henry Holt and Co. (first published 2010)

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Feb 05, 2012 Karen rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: arcs, own, historical-fiction, realistic-fiction

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The Marriage Artist, in a few words, is brilliant yet convuluted - dazzling yet lofty. The story parallels modern day tales of Daniel Lichtmann, an art critic discovering his wife's dead body next to Benjamin Wind - the artist that Daniel has eulogized, and praised repeatedly - to the tale of Vienna in World War II, which ultimately reverts back to Benjamin Wind's past and family.

I had a hard time starting the Marriage Artist if anything. It is undenibly engaging, and poetic, but al...more

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Oct 26, 2010 Janet rated it 5 of 5 stars

Fantastic book--I read it as an ARC (advanced reading copy)--BUT IT'S OUT NOW!! What a beautiful book--hard to review something that's not out yet, and tell you how great it is and that you'll have to wait. Sorry!! But now you can grab it for yourselves--and I suggest you do just that!

This is a beautiful piece of serious literature worth waiting for. The novel concerns the fate of a ketubah (Jewish marriage contract) artist in Vienna in the '30s and his grandson, an important figure in the art w...more

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Aug 21, 2012 Madame X rated it 4 of 5 stars

THE MARRIAGE ARTIST is very intellectual and literary, written in a wry, modern voice and dealing with some pretty heavy themes. It's sophisticated, complex, and makes use of an educated reader's full vocabulary. It's a novel for the type of person who reads magazines like The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Harper's.

The novel cuts between two seemingly unrelated stories, which unite by the end of the novel. The first plot is about a successful art critic, Daniel, who discovers that his wife was h...more THE MARRIAGE ARTIST is very intellectual and literary, written in a wry, modern voice and dealing with some pretty heavy themes. It's sophisticated, complex, and makes use of an educated reader's full vocabulary. It's a novel for the type of person who reads magazines like The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Harper's.

The novel cuts between two seemingly unrelated stories, which unite by the end of the novel. The first plot is about a successful art critic, Daniel, who discovers that his wife was having an affair with an artist whose work gained fame because of Daniel's glowing reviews. Daniel finds out about the affair when his wife, Aleksandra, and the artist, Benjamin Wind, commit suicide together. In the wake of this tragedy, Daniel must sift through the wreckage of his marriage and take a clear look at his failures as a husband for the first time.

The second plot follows a wealthy Viennese family in the years before and during World War II. They are assimilated Jews, converts to Christianity who contemplate their Jewish ancestry with shame. The focus here is Josef, who as a boy discovers that his great talent in life is a gift for creating the ketubah, the Jewish marriage contract, and imbuing the imagery in each new contract with the unique truth of a couple's love. It is a gift that becomes macabre once Josef is transported to Birkenau by the Nazis, where he continues to make ketubat for the other men in the concentration camp, men whose wives are surely dead, producing images that inextricably mix love and death, hope and despair.

It turns out that Josef is Benjamin Wind's grandfather; Joseph's wife did survive the Holocaust, and she made her way to America with their son. Wind and Josef's life are set in parallel: both are artists, and both produced glorious, tragic artwork in the months preceding their deaths by suicide. Daniel, in his quest to understand the suicide of Aleksandra and Wind, unravels the process by which Wind, the grandson of a concentration camp survivor, came to believe that he was an American Indian, not Jewish at all, and confronts issues of religion, identity, and love.

THE MARRIAGE ARTIST is very highbrow, but between all the references to obscure artistic movements and chatter about New York high society, it has a real beating heart. It's not facile or empty, and it ultimately offers an elegant, insightful look into the murkiest depths of the human heart. It's the kind of book that will get excellent reviews rather than excellent sales.(less)

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Sep 25, 2011 Beth rated it 4 of 5 stars

A random pick off the staff pick shelf. I did not realize that the title "The Marriage Artist" referred to a Jewish artist who painted ketubahs (marriage contracts) for Jewish newlyweds in Vienna, Austria before WWII. I thought it had to do with the modern day artist who was found murdered at the beginning of the novel. It took me two weeks to get through the first half of the book. It was so deep, heavy, and metaphorical that I kept putting it down after several pages every night because I got...more

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Feb 22, 2011 switterbug (Betsey) rated it 5 of 5 stars

Andrew Winer has written a potboiler that is also literary. Writing about such a serious subject as the Holocaust sometimes constricts a novelist into a more conventional form of storytelling/historical fiction. But as we have seen with such books as Frederick Reiken's Day for Night and Nicole Krauss's postmodern Great House, as well as Death as a narrator in Markus Zusak's The Book Thief, the only unwritten rules are to grip the reader in a credible story and to edify through words. Winer has d...more

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Oct 24, 2010 Cameling rated it 4 of 5 stars

When a celebrated artist and a woman are found plunged to their deaths, Daniel, the art critic, looks back at his life and wonders when his wife started having an affair with the artist and if he had introduced them. Her death leads him towards an analysis of their marriage, his past and his discovery of a photograph of his wife and the artist, Benjamin Wind, leads him on a quest to find out more personal details about Benjamin and in doing so, perhaps the answer to the mystery behind his wife's...more

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Jun 26, 2011 Kathryn rated it 5 of 5 stars

I don't often award 5 stars in my reviews, but I think this novel truly is amazing. I love everything about it from the characters to the intertwined plots to the title to the names of each section [We Lose Our Love to History, Parts One and Two, and We Will All Be Wedded]. I also loved the way the author considers life, marriage, survival, connection, voice, memory, and death while he openly and often irreverently questions faith, love, partnership/loyalty, death, the role of religion, identity...more

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Nov 26, 2012 Lorri rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: personally-own, holocaust, historical-fiction, novels, jewish-fiction, jewish-history, assimilation

The Marriage Artist: A novel, by Andrew Winer, is an incredible literary feat, in my opinion.
The novel is a a brilliantly composed saga of two stories that alternate within the pages. It is a book with broad and deep expanses, beginning in current times, and sweeping back to Vienna, beginning in 1928.The stories blend magically, with the magnificent word-imagery of Winer.
In the present, we have Daniel Lichtmann, a well-respected art critic. His positive, stunning and admiring critiques of the na...more The Marriage Artist: A novel, by Andrew Winer, is an incredible literary feat, in my opinion.
The novel is a a brilliantly composed saga of two stories that alternate within the pages. It is a book with broad and deep expanses, beginning in current times, and sweeping back to Vienna, beginning in 1928. The stories blend magically, with the magnificent word-imagery of Winer.
In the present, we have Daniel Lichtmann, a well-respected art critic. His positive, stunning and admiring critiques of the native American, Blackfoot sculptor, Benjamin Wind, has made him (Wind) famous.

The novel opens with the bodies of Wind and Lichtmann’s wife laying on the sidewalk in front of a New York City apartment building. By all accounts, it looks as if they plunged from the terrace. From there, the suspense begins, as the reader is taken on a trip through time, as Lichtmann tries to discover whether his wife was having an affair with Wind, whether they committed suicide together, or somehow fell off the terrace.

Daniel is committed to uncovering what actually led up to the tragic event. Through is efforts, he uncovers information regarding his wife, information he didn’t know. He also uncovers information regarding Wind, his background and his artwork, and how is own critique of Wind’s last exhibit may have been far-fetched.

The next chapter begins in 1928, a time of uproar and persecution towards the Jews, with ten-year old Josef Pick, as he visits his grandfather, in the less than desirable Jewish section of Vienna. The Pick family has converted to Catholicism in order to avoid the repercussions of being labeled Jewish. While there Josef becomes enthralled with his grandfather’s business of creating ketubot (prenuptial marriage contracts) for those who are looking to have a creative and ceremonial document of the groom’s rights and responsibilities concerning the bride.

Josef’s father is with him, and watches as his son tries to create a ketubah of his own. The final result is one that brings awe to his grandfather Pommeranz, and causes Pommeranz to use Josef’s talent to earn extra money for his own needs. What transpires after that is nothing short of incredible, as the reader is taken on Josef’s journey of artistic development and creation with his amazing talent, one that brings him recognition in the world of art. Winer infuses the pages with the defining imagery, defining moments of the ravages of war. The journey continues through Josef’s adult life, through the days of the Holocaust and the antisemitism geared at the Jews.

The story line had me thinking about the title, and alternate meanings. Aside from a ketubah, a marriage artist could be one who is creative in their own lives, one who tries to manipulate their marriage. After all, an artist is not just one who paints, draws, creates beautiful documents or etches on paper. An artist can be defined as so much more than that in the realm of daily life.
The Marriage Artist moves forward and moves backward in the time continuum, and in history’s darkest hours. I was engulfed in the book, and could not put it down. I read it straight through, except for small breaks to eat, etc. I was mesmerized and absorbed with Winer’s use of beautiful and sensitive language. It was so beautiful that I was in awe of his prose. There were moments that I was emotionally caught up in the folds of the story.

Andrew Winer is masterful at telling the tale of The Marriage Artist and blending families together. It is a lovely, sensitive and poignant story, one filled with the affects of assimilation, love and loss, and effects of lives caught in the maelstrom of evil, leading to an epiphany towards redemption.
The novel is one of educational and historical worthiness. The drama and the intensity that is displayed is something that I feel should not be missed. I highly recommend The Marriage Artist to everyone.(less)

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Oct 27, 2011 Doreen rated it 2 of 5 stars

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Hi, everyone! This is the first book club I've ever been in, so this is all pretty new and exciting for me. Unlike the reviewers so far, though, I didn't really enjoy this book. I also have a habit of going on and on, so please feel free to skip my rather curmudgeonly comments. Thanks for including me, though! Thoughts below:

1. What were your general impressions of the book?

It started out so well. The juxtaposition of the...more

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Oct 28, 2011 Michelle added it

From the very first sentence, the reader knows that The Marriage Artist is not going to be an easy or light-hearted read. Opening with the suicides, the reader is immediately plunged into the loss and doubt left behind for the survivors after such a death. Against this backdrop is a world unfamiliar to most readers, the art world in general and Jewish art in particular. To add even further complexity is the interwoven story of Josef Pick, which takes place in Europe during the 1930s and 1940s. T...more From the very first sentence, the reader knows that The Marriage Artist is not going to be an easy or light-hearted read. Opening with the suicides, the reader is immediately plunged into the loss and doubt left behind for the survivors after such a death. Against this backdrop is a world unfamiliar to most readers, the art world in general and Jewish art in particular. To add even further complexity is the interwoven story of Josef Pick, which takes place in Europe during the 1930s and 1940s. Taken separately, each individual story thread is beautiful in its own right but missing a key element which allows the reader to become truly vested in the story. Taken as a whole, The Marriage Artist is a stunningly ambitious novel that covers the entire range of human emotion and experiences.

Mr. Winer challenges the reader to the core by his almost animistic portrayal of human relationships. His use of crude, inflammatory language only serves to elicit the exact same sentiments as his characters, while simultaneously hinting at the bruised egos and true sentiments hiding underneath the crassness. It is a brilliant use of the language, as the reader is thrown back and forth across the spectrum of emotions with each sentence.

Neither Daniel nor Josef are easy to understand or to love. Both are cruel in their ability to withhold affection from those most in need of it. If a reader is willing and able to see through their crusty exterior, underneath their overt prickliness is a heart that bleeds with uncommon ease. The experience, if seen through to the end, is a rewarding one.

The Marriage Artist is a beautiful juxtaposition of the very best and very worst of humanity. Daniel's search to uncover the reasons for his wife's infidelity and suicide lead to the discovery of what it means to truly love someone and to absolutely lose everything. Mr. Winer uses his considerable writing talent to create in the reader simultaneous feelings of revulsion and utter heartbreak. Challenging and emotionally difficult to read, The Marriage Artist ultimately leaves the reader haunted by its brutality and poignancy.

Acknowledgements: Thank you to Picador Books and to Jen and Nicole from the Book Club for my review copy!(less)

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Jan 20, 2011 Lisa rated it 5 of 5 stars

The way this story is carefully woven reminds me a bit of Nicole Krauss' "The Great House." I love the way Andrew Winer writes and if you haven't read his first book "The Color Midnight Made" - it's brilliant as well. This is the story of Daniel, an art critic, and how he comes to term with the death of his wife and her artist lover. The book starts out with their deaths so this isn't a spoiler. Daniel can't accept their suicides much less the fact that his wife even had a secret life. He starts...more

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Nov 02, 2010 Alayne Bushey rated it 5 of 5 stars

The narrative of Andrew Winer’s The Marriage Artist is akin to two train tracks heading toward each other and meeting at a final destination. Imagine watching these trains from the sky, see them converge, but sit back and enjoy the view. Look at the landscape, watch the passing trees, and eavesdrop on fellow travelers’ conversations and stories which only make sense once both trains have pulled into the station.

Track one is the story of art critic Daniel Lichtmann, whose wife Aleksandra plunged...more The narrative of Andrew Winer’s The Marriage Artist is akin to two train tracks heading toward each other and meeting at a final destination. Imagine watching these trains from the sky, see them converge, but sit back and enjoy the view. Look at the landscape, watch the passing trees, and eavesdrop on fellow travelers’ conversations and stories which only make sense once both trains have pulled into the station.

Track one is the story of art critic Daniel Lichtmann, whose wife Aleksandra plunged to her death alongside Benjamin Wind, one of Daniel’s favorite artists. Whether his wife and the artist were lovers is unknown. What she was doing on the roof of his building, and whether the two jumped to their deaths by choice or force, also remains a mystery. Daniel searches for answers and receives unexpected information in the form of an elderly wheelchair-bound man who attends both funerals.

Track two starts in 1928 Vienna when young Josef Pick discovers his artistic talent and trains with his grandfather to paint Jewish marriage contracts called ketubah. This track follows young Josef through his teenage and early adult years, during the tumultuous start of World War II and the purging of Jewish citizens from Vienna, until it meets with Daniel Lichtmann’s story in the present day.

At times both sweeping and engaging, here is an author who knows his tools and how to use them. Winer’s prose ranges from lilting and poetic to stream-of-consciousness. Emotional and poignant, The Marriage Artist is a vast and tremendous dramatic novel of history and heartache. Of the bonds that bring people together and the devices that tear us apart.

Not knowing where the plot is taking us, the reader has no choice but to read onward, trusting in the author to reveal his secrets. And reveal he does. Winer selectively shares bits of historical ingredients to define the puzzle of present day, piecing each corner edge to its partner. Only when the whole puzzle is complete can we truly see and appreciate the splendor of the picture. Beautifully wrought and imagined, The Marriage Artist is remarkably unlike anything I’ve read in quite some time.

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Aug 12, 2011 Andrea rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I liked this, but I don't know if I would recommend it, if that makes any sense at all! :) This was a random pick-up at the library, and for that it ended up being quite good. The story is beautifully written, and the characters are deep, interesting, and well-developed. It is a contemporary story intertwined with historical fiction, and the author does a great job of weaving the stories together. But... I can't quite figure out what exactly he was trying to say about love, marriage, religion, a...more

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Apr 02, 2011 Julie rated it 4 of 5 stars

Although the writing style can sometimes be a bit difficult to read, and the author tends to philosophize and go off on tangents (especially in the first half of the book), on the whole the book is very interesting, and the storylines are very well interwoven. The wife of Daniel, a present-day New York art critic, and one of the artists he writes about a lot both fall to their deaths shortly after the artist's incredible final exhibition. From there the story goes back and forth to WWII Vienna a...more

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May 11, 2012 Aaron (Typographical Era) rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2010, book-club-library, nook

Daniel Lichtmann’s wife is dead. So is Benjamin Wind, the artist whose career Daniel built his reputation as an art critic on. The two have both plunged out the window of a high-rise to meet the all too eager pavement waiting far below to swallow their existence and spit out their empty shells. That much is crystal clear. But was this a murder? A murder suicide? A suicide pact between secret lovers? How did the two even know each other and when did they meet? Burning with unanswered questions, a...more

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Oct 27, 2011 Brittany rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Those I state above in my review

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Wow just wow. This book is crafted so well and has so much depth and feeling. It is a little hard to start up but once you go, your off and it becomes hard to put down. The plot is very complex and challenging to decipher but it's worth it when you realize what is going on is larger underneath the surface everytime. I don't want to spoil the book since I'm awful at doing that in reviews so I'll just end here with a All in all this book is a great read for those who love mysteries,...more

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Dec 15, 2011 AnnieBebop rated it 4 of 5 stars

This was a novel I couldn't put down, sneaking every spare moment to read it til it was finished. This author really knows how to use language as well as tell a story. Only complaint is that he runs on too long (where are the editors these days?), but it could be that he had a target number of pages to complete without enough meat to fill them. I did find myself in skimming mode as I got near the end thinking, "Get on with it", a lot. And the resolution was a bit convoluted and weird. I gravitat...more

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Dec 16, 2011 Jennifer rated it 3 of 5 stars

The book centers around Daniel, an art critic whose wife has just committed suicide with her lover, an artist that Daniel has championed. Daniel searches for the truth behind his wife and her lover's actions and learns more about several Jews caught in Vienna during WWII. I found it amazing how self-destructive people could be.

I found the book slow-going and very uneven. Parts were beautiful and compelling and then other parts felt too overly-intellectualized. The author used to be an art critic...more

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Jan 08, 2012 Teresa Lukey rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: won-it, i-learned-something, kept-me-wondering, fiction

I read this book for a book club, otherwise I don't think it is something I would have picked up. There are two stories here, the first being the story of Daniel Lichtmann and his search for the perfect love-I guess. The second story is that of Josef Pick, who lived in Vienna when it was taken over by German forces.

Daniel's story takes place in the modern day. Early on, Daniel leaves his first wife for Aleksandra, who ends up mysteriously falling to her death with the artist Benjamin Wind, the a...more I read this book for a book club, otherwise I don't think it is something I would have picked up. There are two stories here, the first being the story of Daniel Lichtmann and his search for the perfect love-I guess. The second story is that of Josef Pick, who lived in Vienna when it was taken over by German forces.

Daniel's story takes place in the modern day. Early on, Daniel leaves his first wife for Aleksandra, who ends up mysteriously falling to her death with the artist Benjamin Wind, the artist Daniel champions. I found myself thinking that Daniel was just fascinated with something new and he wound up in the same position that he was in with his first wife, trying to conceive without success. This is a story I have heard too many times and I found myself annoyed with his stupidity. Daniel is very upset by his wife's death and spends his time trying to piece together what happened and why. It is only after Aleksandra's death he learns that she and Mr. Wind had some sort of relationship although it is unclear what the relationship entailed.

The story of Josef Pick is much more interesting. He is a renowned artist, known for making Jewish Marriage Ketubah. Josef's father does not approve of his Ketubah making and eventually dubs him the Marriage Artist, hence the title. At the time Vienna is occupied by Nazi's and we really get a feel for what it was like for people who lived in this time. These people were treated so poorly it can make a person sick to read what was done and what they had to do to survive. This story follows Josef through his younger years with his grandfather and in to adulthood, when he is arrested and sent away to a concentration camp, where he dies.

While reading the story, I knew there were secrets and I knew that the two stories would eventually tie together, but the information is not revealed until close to the end of the story. I found myself impatient with the story. If not for waiting so long to reveal and the whole weak cheating husband issue, I think I could have given this book 4 stars.(less)

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Feb 18, 2011 Katya rated it 2 of 5 stars

Got this book from the Seattle Northeast Library's Staff Picks shelves... had no idea about the subject or the author. It seems that this book is very well received but unfortunately, I did not like it at all. It felt like work getting through it, or like a homework assignment. I did not find a single character sympathetic, they were all cold and motivated by things that made no sense to me... I gave it two stars because the historical perspective is interesting and the writing is excellent.

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Feb 11, 2011 Sheila rated it 5 of 5 stars

Truly one of the best books I have read in a long time. Amazingly well-written, this novel alternates between WWII Vienna and modern-day New York City, and the threads that tie the time periods and characters together. The characters are exceptionally developed, and you have to love them all despite their flaws, or maybe because of their flaws. As a previous reader stated, I just wanted to start this book over the minute I finished it. Amazing book that will stick with the reader forever.

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Mar 10, 2011 Ruth rated it 3 of 5 stars

A Goodreads Giveaway, I'm always hopeful to read a book that makes me want to give 5 stars. This novel, however is getting by with only 3. It took me quite a long time to finish reading the book and it wasn't until I was more than half-way through that I even became sure I wanted to finish reading the story.
For me, the story (as any story revolving around the holocaust would be) was weighted down with tragedy which made it hard for me to want to pick it up and read. Sections of the story felt r...more

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Jul 01, 2012 Victoria rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: historical-fiction, world-war-ii, jewish-lit

The Marriage Artist both pleased and disappointed me. Every character in this story is flawed; many are flawed pretty deeply. The language was flowerly and beautiful, but I thought there was too much philosophy behind every thing every character said to each other for it to resemble realism.

All of the men here, even Daniel, are unable to have stable relationships with women.

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Aug 05, 2011 Julie rated it 3 of 5 stars

I was attracted by the title, not knowing the story would lead me to Austria during WWII and the plight of the Jewish community. The writing style was cumbersome to me and the story jumped all over the place, but I was drawn in. The author and I are definitely not on the same wavelength, so reading this book was more like an education than enjoyment.

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Dec 28, 2011 Helen rated it 3 of 5 stars

Beautifully written, compelling story that gets lost and heavy and meandering. I am torn between giving it a 3 or a 4. Parts of it were fascinating and parts seemed to go on forever with characters philosiphising, which sound great but seem to have no meaning. Reminded me a lot of Great House by Nicole Krauss.

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Nov 17, 2011 Jo rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: goodreads-giveaway, 2011

I received this book from goodreads, thank you very much. The book barely makes three stars on my scale. It's well crafted, philosophical and fairly deep. I think the book will speak volumes to some people, I am just not one of them. And in the end I still am not sure what motivated some of the people to do what they did.

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Nov 03, 2010 Lisa rated it 4 of 5 stars

Unfortunately, the busy-ness of my life lately made this book a little difficult to get through -- but I don't think it had anything to do with the book.

This is a family story, dating back to the horrific days of being a Jew in Austria in the early 1940's to a present day couple who leaps to their death. The husband of the dead woman begins a search to figure out why she would die so next to the artist that he helped raise to stardom. He ends up tracing the artist's family history, falling in lo...more

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May 26, 2011 Joanna rated it 2 of 5 stars

This book would have been much better if the author would have given his readers a little credit and not spelled out the obvious impact every event had on the characters. Let the story speak for itself, because it's a pretty interesting one.

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Nov 17, 2010 Rosanne rated it 2 of 5 stars

I am sorry to say this but the book did not appeal to me. I read 100 pages in an effort to get into it but it failed to capture my interest. I was disappointed because I like the author's use of words and writing style, however, it was a bit drawn out. I need a book to get me involved within the first 100 pages.

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Dec 26, 2010 Margot rated it 4 of 5 stars

This book just missed greatness. Amazing, multifaceted characters, rich historical settings, captivating plot. The problem was he should have the let the story speak for itself. Way too much psychoanalysis and philosophical ramblings. Really good addition to Holocaust literature.

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Andrew Winer is the author of "The Marriage Artist" and "The Color Midnight Made". Formerly an artist who wrote art criticism, he teaches at the University of California, Riverside, where he has directed the MFA program in creative writing. He is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction and is married to the writer Charmaine Craig, with whom he has two daughters."

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