In _The Art Studentβs War_ , his sixth novel, Brad Leithauser has brought off a double feat of imagination: a keen and affectionate rendering of an artist as a young woman and a loving historical portrait of a now-vanished Detroit in its heyday. The story opens on a sunny spring day as a pretty wo
The Art Student's War
β Scribed by Leithauser, Brad
- Book ID
- 108568634
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 429 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
The Art Student's War is Brad Leithauser's finest novel to date, deeply moving in its portrayal of a young aspiring artist and her immigrant family during Detroitβs wartime heyday.
The year is 1943. Bianca Paradiso is a pretty and ambitious eighteen-year-old studying to be an artist while her bustling, thriving hometown turns from mass-producing automobiles to rolling out fighter planes and tanks. For Bianca, national and personal conflicts begin to merge when she is asked to draw portraits of the wounded young soldiers who are filling local hospitals. Suddenly she must confront lives maimed at their outset as well as her own romantic yearnings, and she must do so at a time when another warβa war within her own familyβis erupting.
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