{"product_id":"the-last-nude-9781594486470","title":"The Last Nude","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"As erotic and powerful as the paintings that inspired it.\"--Emma Donoghue, author of \u003ci\u003eRoom\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eParis, 1927. 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 support herself, 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. A tour de force of historical imagination, \u003ci\u003eThe Last Nude\u003c\/i\u003e is about genius and craft, love and desire, regret and, most of all, hope that can transcend time and circumstance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEllis Avery'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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50725501993234,"sku":"9781594486470","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_726e3757-76c8-48ab-ab51-a2e3e01e981d.jpg?v=1734831602","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-last-nude-9781594486470","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}