{"product_id":"9781101554180","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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInspired by real events in de Lempicka's history, \u003ci\u003eThe Last Nude\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47119173091568,"sku":"9781101554180","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781101554180_p0.jpg?v=1763687834","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781101554180","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}