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![]() Jeanne Mackin breathes new life into such luminaries as Man Ray, Picasso, and, of course, the titular character, Lee Miller, while at the same time offering up a wonderfully human and sympathetic protagonist in Nora Tours." "The Beautiful American will transport you to expat Paris and from there take you on a journey through the complexities of a friendship as it is inflected through the various lenses of nostalgia, pity, celebrity, jealousy, and - ultimately - love. Sandra Dallas, New York Times bestselling author of Fallen Women It is a brilliant, beautifully written literary masterpiece. The Beautiful American, which readers will rank right up there with The Paris Wife, takes readers from the giddiness of the flapper era to the grittiness of World War II. "Jeanne Mackin's luminous novel about Man Ray and his model-mistress Lee Miller evokes the iridescence of 1920s Paris when youth and artistic freedom and sexual excess were all that mattered. "Achingly beautiful and utterly mesmerizing." - Jennifer Robson, author of Somewhere in France Jeanne was the recipient of a creative writing fellowship from the American Antiquarian Society and her journalism has won awards from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education. She lives in the Finger Lakes region of New York State, with her husband, artist Steve Poleskie. She has worked as a journalist for several publications, and as a university research and science writer. Her most recent is The Beautiful American. ![]() Jeanne Mackin is the author of several historical novels. ![]()
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