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Article: Blue Nude.(Book review)
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- Harvard Review
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- December 1, 2006
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Blue Nude by Elizabeth Rosner, Ballantine Books, 2006, $22.95 cloth, ISBN 0345442229.
Elizabeth Rosner's second novel, Blue Nude, reminds me of Faulkner's assertion that "'the past is never dead; It's never even past." In her award-winning debut novel, The Speed of Light, for which she won the Harold Ribalow Prize and Prix France Bleu Gironde, Rosner drew on her uneasy upbringing as a granddaughter of the Jewish Holocaust. Blue Nude quietly continues that examination, exploring contemporary German-Jewish relations by way of the guarded bond between a conflicted German painter and his reluctant Jewish muse.
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