An edition of Restoration (2003)

Restoration

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An edition of Restoration (2003)

Restoration

a novel

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"Mysterious Levete Asmore was a legend in New Orleans even before he apparently threw himself off the Huey P. Long Bridge in 1941 at the height of his creative powers. Widely regarded as the finest and most original painter ever produced by the American South, Asmore won fame for a series of portraits depicting beautiful young women with whom he was rumored to be sexually involved.

And while a certain promiscuity was long tolerated in the old, benighted city, there was no hiding Asmore's secret past in the dark heart of Depression-era Louisiana. When a newspaper reported that the WPA mural he was painting laid waste to sexual taboos and the prevailing racial order, Asmore was ordered to whitewash the masterpiece before the public was allowed to see it. Weeks after doing so, he was dead.".

"New Orleans, present day. A young journalist named Jack Charbonnet and the woman he desperately wants, painting restorer Rhys Goudeau, discover that Asmore might not have destroyed his infamous mural after all. If they can find the painting and restore its damaged surface, it promises to answer the riddle of Asmore's violent death and reveal the reasons for his tortured life. The mural also will be worth millions - more than any other art object ever created by an artist from the region.

But to save the painting Goudeau and Charbonnet must outmaneuver their rapaciously greedy rivals in the small but wealthy world of Southern art collectors."--BOOK JACKET.

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Publisher
Doubleday
Language
English
Pages
308

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Restoration
April 13, 2004, Anchor
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Cover of: Restoration
Restoration: a novel
2003, Doubleday
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New York

Edition Notes

Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3552.R2275 R47 2003

The Physical Object

Pagination
308 p. ;
Number of pages
308

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3562992M
Internet Archive
restorationnovel00brad
ISBN 10
0385502613
LCCN
2002031182
OCLC/WorldCat
50292376
Library Thing
1181681
Goodreads
844738

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