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‘The Last Nude’ by Ellis Avery

Offbeat, risky novel sifts a sensual affair between an artist and her muse in 1920s Paris

By Meredith Maran

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  January 08, 2012

The second novel by Ellis Avery, author of the award-winning “The Teahouse Fire’’, is a member of an endangered species: the kind of offbeat, risky novel that’s threatened with extinction by an increasingly risk-averse publishing industry. Once upon a time, editors (Max Perkins comes to mind) nurtured the careers of offbeat, risky authors (Hemingway and Fitzgerald come to mind), committing to them for a lifetime, keeping them supplied with the basics: booze, legal pads, praise.

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