Literary / Historical Fiction
DatePublished: 09-25-2202
Publisher:Woodpecker Lane Press
In this vividly-rendered novel, Melanie Dugan reimagines the life of AliceNeel, a groundbreaking American painter who revolutionized the art of theportrait in the twentieth century. Born in 1900 into a straitlacedmiddle-class family, Neel charted her own unconventional path. Her lifetime spanned World War I, the 1918 flu pandemic, women winning the right to vote,the Great Depression, World War II, the McCarthy Era, the Civil Rights Era,and second-wave feminism. She worked for decades in obscurity, wrestlingwith depression, poverty, and misogyny, loving the wrong men, fighting tolive life on her own terms, and above all to paint.
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MelanieDugan is the author of Bee Summers (“a carefully wroughtportrayal of the way we carry trauma with us through life.” BrendaSchmidt, Quill & Quire), Dead Beautiful (“the writing isgorgeous,” A Soul Unsung), Revising Romance (“heartwarming,amusing and…downright sexy,” Midwest Book Review), and SometimeDaughter (“Stunning debut,” Kingston Whig-Standard). Her shortstories have been shortlisted for several awards, including the CBC Literaryaward. She lives in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
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