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The Face Of A Naked Lady
Michael Rips
Price: LE 216
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| Nick Ripss son had always known him as a conservative midwesterner, dedicated, affable, bland to the point of invisibility. Upon his fathers death, however, Michael Rips returned to his Omaha family home to discover a hidden portfolio of paintingsall done by his father, all of a naked black woman. His solid Republican father, Michael would eventually discover, had an interesting past and another side to his personality. Raised in one of Omahas most famous brothels, Nick had insisted on hiring a collection of social misfits to work in his eyeglass factoryand had once showed up in his sons high school principals office in pajamas. As Michael searches for the woman in the paintings, he meets, among others, an African American detective who swears by the clairvoyant powers of a Mind Machine, a homeless man with five million dollars in the bank, an underwear auctioneer, and a flying trapeze artist on her last sublime ride. Ultimately, in his investigations through his Nebraska hometown, he will discover the mysterious womanas well as a father he never knew, and a profound sense that all around us the miraculous permeates the everyday.
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Language: English
Hardcover: 192 pages
ISBN-10: 9780618273522
ISBN-13: 9780618273522
Genre: Biography
Size: 20.3 cm x 20.3 cm
Shipping Weight: 18 grams
Condition: As New
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