The Art Student's War
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 Detroit’s 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 war—a war within her own family—is erupting.
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November 2, 2010
BRAD LEITHAUSER is the author, most recently, of Rhyme’s Rooms and the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including a MacArthur Fellowship. This is his nineteenth book. He is a professor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and divides his time between Baltimore, MD, and Amherst, MA.
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