{"product_id":"the-last-nude-isbn-9781594486470","title":"The Last Nude","description":"\u003cb\u003eSpellbinding and provocative, \u003ci\u003eThe Last Nude \u003c\/i\u003eis a novel about genius and craft, love and desire, regret and, most of all, hope that can transcend time and circumstance\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eParis, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStruggling 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.“[An] amazing book . . . wholly original and engrossing.”\u003cp\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Last Nude\u003c\/i\u003e breaks important ground for literature, and does so with exuberance, skill, and grace.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A compulsively readable novel.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A taut, elegant novel . . . [Avery’s] prose sings.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—\u003ci\u003eMORE Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Seductive and compelling, the novel is painted with as much drama and precision as one of Lempicka’s canvases.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Daily Beast\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A sly, sleekly written stereograph of art, desire, and desperation in Paris in the ’20s, \u003ci\u003eThe Last Nude \u003c\/i\u003ebrings Rafaela to electric life, much as Tamara de Lempicka did when she painted her.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Alexander Chee, author of \u003ci\u003eEdinburgh \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Last Nude\u003c\/i\u003e is a remarkable novel: at once a seductive evocation of Lost Generation Paris, a faithful literary rendering of Tamara de Lempicka's idiosyncratic and groundbreaking art, and a vibrant, intelligent, affecting story in its own right. It’s also smoking hot.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Emily Barton, author of\u003ci\u003e Brookland\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Ellis Avery transports the reader on a fast-paced magic-carpet ride to Paris between the world wars, a time when artists, patrons, and models fused the business of sex and art, with deeply painful results.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Aaron Hamburger, author of \u003ci\u003eFaith for Beginners\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Last Nude \u003c\/i\u003ecarries us through one of the most fascinating and turbulent periods in modern art, and into the minds and bodies of two of art history’s most riveting heroines. With prose and imagery that are both lyrical and unabashedly sensual, Ellis Avery breathes life and depth into famed artist’s muse Rafaela, tracing her rocky but thrilling path from lost girl to Lost Generation icon, and laying bare acts of love, desire and betrayal with all the assuredness of a master artist herself.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Jennifer Cody Epstein, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Painter from Shanghai\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eEllis Avery\u003c\/b\u003e’s first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Teahouse Fire\u003c\/i\u003e, set in the tea ceremony world of nineteenth-century Japan, has been translated into five languages and has won three awards, including the American Library Association Stonewall Award. Avery was also the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Smoke Week\u003c\/i\u003e, an award-winning 9\/11 memoir. She taught fiction writing at Columbia University.","brand":"Riverhead Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301620011237,"sku":"NP9781594486470","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781594486470.jpg?v=1767740143","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-last-nude-isbn-9781594486470","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}