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Ellis Avery's scintillating, gorgeously woven “The Last Nude” (Penguin, 2011) was written about art deco artist Tamara de Lempicka, a bisexual painter in Paris during the Jazz Age, from the point of view of her American muse, Rafaela. It is a nuanced, complex book about Parisian politics in the Jazz Age, about painting, about love and power dynamics. Her writing style is sumptuous and supple. People have compared Avery’s sentences to brush strokes and as a painter, I felt this acutely.
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I think I would have likes it better if the characters were original and not historical. Lots of name dropping.
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