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A "powerful and important tale of love and war, art and family" (Allison Pataki, New York Times bestselling author) , Stolen Beauty gives voice to two remarkable women from the dawn of the twentieth century to the devastation of World War II, and brings to life the true story behind the creation and near destruction of Gustav Klimt's most remarkable paintings.In the dazzling glitter of 1903 Vienna, Adele Bloch-Bauer - young, beautiful, brilliant, and Jewish - meets painter Gustav Klimt. Wealthy in everything but freedom, Adele embraces Klimt's renegade genius as the two awaken to the erotic possibilities on the canvas and beyond. Though they enjoy a life where sex and art are just beginning to break through the faade of conventional society, the city is also troubled by a disturbing increase in anti-Semitism as political hatred simmers in the shadows of Adele's coffeehouse afternoons and cultural salons.
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I love books & great stories -- and I love the people who tell them as well as the folks who read and share them. I'm the author of STOLEN BEAUTY, a novel about love, art, courage and war that illuminates the intimate lives of two remarkable Viennese women whose fates and awakenings are bound by Gustav Klimt and his golden portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer. I'm a co-author of THE MIRACLES OF PRATO, a novel about the Renaissance painter Fra Filippo Lippi, written with Laura Morowitz. My memoir in verse, BLUE SUBURBIA: ALMOST A MEMOIR, was a finalist for The Paterson Poetry Prize in 2004.
