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In this sensual, intimate novel, prizewinning poet and bestselling author Elizabeth Rosner tells the engrossing and timely story of an artist and his model, and the moral and political implications of their relationship.
Born in the shadow of postwar Germany, Danzig is a once-prominent painter who now teaches at an art institute in San Francisco. But while Danzig shares wisdom and technique with students, his own canvases remain mysteriously empty. When a compelling new model named Merav poses for his class, Danzig, unsettled by her beauty, senses that she may be the muse he has been waiting for.
The Israeli-born granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor, Merav is a former art student who discovered her abilities as a model while studying in Tel Aviv. To escape the danger and violence of the Middle East, she moved to California, where she found work posing for artists around the Bay Area. Now challenged by Danzig’s German accent and the menace it suggests, Merav must decide how to overcome her fears. Before they can create anything new together, both artist and model are forced to examine the history they carry.
Like a paintbrush in motion, Blue Nude moves back and forth through time, recounting the events that have brought Danzig and Merav together: their disparate upbringings, their creative awakenings, and their similarly painful, often catastrophic, love lives. The novel ultimately unites them in the present and, through the transcendent power of artistic expression, moves them forward to the point of reconciliation, redemption, and revival.
Using words to paint the landscapes of body and soul, Elizabeth Rosner conveys the art of survival, the complexity of history, the form of exile, the shape of desire, and the color of intimacy. Blue Nude is the narrative equivalent of a masterpiece of fine art.
Customer Reviews:
An End that is also a Beginning...........2006-11-13
I was fortunate enough to read this book very early in '06 and to receive a siged hardcover as Elizabeth was making her book signing rounds on the East Coast in New York and cross country. The reviews posted previous to this one express many eloquent words that all indicate that this writing, by Rosner, is a different flair than the "Speed of Light" which I have read many times. "Blue Nude" is as much a piece of artwork as the picture it illustrates on its front cover. One could frame the text as the words do paint a marvelous portrait that comes to its ending much too quickly as it is hard to put down. However, when relating Rosner's story to a photograhic artist who devotes his life to the study of both light and form, in Alexandria, during a posh fine art show something he said made great sense. After purchasing a start to collecting his work, he turned to me, smiled, and said, "Rosner's artist has just begun and there is more in him to tell". I agree. It is my hope that Elizabeth Rosner can dig deeper within herself and grace us with a sequel. I am absolutely confident that she is capable of even more like this one!
A beautiful book!.......2006-08-12
This is a beautiful book! The way Merav and Danzig dance with one another is a perfect metaphor for the larger theme: how any two peoples with a very troubled past can approach reconciliation. The reader can tell that Ms. Rosner is a poet. The book is lyrical, and written with compassion and restraint.
an exquisite and quietly beautiful story.......2006-06-15
Bestselling author and poet Elizabeth Rosner's second novel (following THE SPEED OF LIGHT) is a rousing tour-de-force --- a window into the artistic lives of two strangers whose pasts, presents and futures are irrevocably intertwined. With delicate yet persistent hands, Rosner explores a multilayered landscape of loss, unrequited desire, passion and isolationism, and weaves a dark and textured story out of what she finds. Her characters are larger than life at times --- bursting with their own specific energies, passions and identities, and righteous in their attempts to make meaning out of the world around them. Yet, they are also nameless receptacles of the universal experience --- mere forms chasing the same questions that have been chased and debated for centuries.
BLUE NUDE is the story of the complex union between two artists in San Francisco --- the elder and once-prominent German painter turned professor, Danzig, and Merav, a youthful Israeli beauty and former art student who makes a living working as a nude model. The two have deep and guarded pasts, both dating back to lives in foreign countries, separate yet intricately connected. Although they are many years apart in both age and experience, their sordid histories haunt their present lives and profoundly influence their decisions, actions and relationships.
Danzig was born immediately following World War II, to an abusive father who played a major role (hinted at, but never explicitly named) in the destruction of the Jews during the war; a painfully submissive mother who did nothing to stand between her violent husband, his post-occupation sullied reputation, and his undeserving offspring; and a depressed and guilt-ridden sister who took her own life when Danzig was seven years old. As he grew older, Danzig became increasingly aware of the events that shaped his upbringing and was disgusted by his father's vulgarity, his mother's lack of self-esteem and inability to protect herself or her children, and his sister's resignation to what she viewed as life's insurmountable injustices. He found solace in painting, however, and eventually left home permanently to relocate to San Francisco in order to explore his art more freely.
Also an expatriate, Merav spent her childhood on a kibbutz in Tel-Aviv and lived with her mother Isabelle and her grandmother Esther, who miraculously survived persecution by the Germans. She learned how to explore herself and life's richness through painting and discovered at a young age the beauty of expression without words. Her neighbor, Yossi, was her best friend, confidant and eventual lover, and taught her that passion could be contained or exchanged in a single touch. They both served their two-year stint in the Israeli army, traveling the vast desert learning (or, in her case, trying not to learn) to kill. Tragically, he was killed after the bus he was on exploded because of an undetected bomb --- an incident that broke her heart (especially because he had just informed her that he was about to marry someone else) and pushed her to move away from a country riddled with death to one where she could begin anew.
In a way, their chance meeting in his classroom in San Francisco --- he, the art teacher, and she, the substitute nude model --- serves as the gateway to their mutually independent yet intertwined rebirth, and infuses life into the deeper, humming themes that resonate throughout BLUE NUDE. Later, as she poses for him, exposed and naked in his studio, he is finally able to move past and through his wrecked childhood, the damaging and ill-fated affairs with two previous models, and resulting period of maddening artistic blockage, to a space ripe with inspiration, confidence and inner peace. She, too, transcends the consequences of her upbringing, Yossi's death, and failed marriage to a photographer who loved her only as a sum of photographable body parts, and walks willingly into a future alive with hope. "She does not want to live as if about to be annihilated. She will not accept that as the truth." Neither will he. Life begets Art begets Life.
BLUE NUDE is an exquisite and quietly beautiful story, told by a writer with surefire talent, grace and profound insight into human frailty. Elizabeth Rosner's knack for waxing poetic is witnessed on every page --- her sentences, deliciously thick with implication and symbolism; her characters, flawed yet persistent, each grappling with life's choices in his or her own way. There are a number of captivating moments that readers will relish and languish on, as they burrow through chapters that jump back and forth in time in each character's life, and shift from perspective to perspective. Of course, the ubiquitous relationship between Art, Truth and Life pulsates throughout these well-drawn pages, offering up many burning and delightfully unanswerable questions so vital to the human experience. Stunning.
--- Reviewed by Alexis Burling
An original and very readable book about art and reconciliation.......2006-06-12
Blue Nude tells us a thought provoking story that reads like a beautiful painting whose brush strokes evoke poetry, memory and drama. This novel weaves its way forward and backward through time and ultimately lands us in the present, perched and ready for new beginnings.
Creative Journeys.......2006-06-10
On a day when I needed to rejuvenate myself, I headed up a mountain between San Francisco and rural Marin County, the settings of Elizabeth Rosner's new book Blue Nude. I have my dog and the book in tow and settle into finishing this fine description of two divergent souls who meet on a creative journey. What I found so compelling in finishing this book is that it took me into a creative trance, usually only achieved when intimately involved in my own creative process. As an analytical type, I found myself not studying the writing or the characters, but instead being swept away by the accumulation of their experiences that result in art.
In Ms. Rosner's first book, The Speed of Light, I was captivated by the experience of feeling the second-hand smoke of genocide, seen through the eyes of children of Holocaust survivors. It also gave us a more fresh and raw view of man against man, and the inhumanity that unfortunately is experienced by many peoples throughout the world. Blue Nude continues in this vein and explores characters not just for their own experience, but also the experience that have shaped the people that have shaped them. And Ms. Rosner doles out this information in a way that keeps us curious and expectant, while not feeling that any of it is predicable.
I thoroughly enjoyed both books, not just for the story and the characters, but for the feelings they invoked in me while reading. These books are thought provoking beyond their last pages.
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Brown Eyes Blue: A Novel
Carolyn Meyer
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This story of three generations of independent-minded women will resonate with mothers and daughters of all ages.
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A Wonderful Read.......2003-04-26
At last, thanks to Carolyn Meyer and her remarkable first adult novel Brown Eyes Blue, we have a poignant, pithy story, rife with recognizable relationships among women spanning three generations, where the heroines are not all under forty with violet eyes. In fact, arguably my favorite character is Lavinia, an artist in her eighties who is scandalizing both family and community in her sleepy Pennsylvania town by her switch from painting bucolic country scenes to bringing naked men to life in full frontal view.
My five children grew up reading Meyer's award winning books for pre-teens and teens (she's written forty nine of them), and I read them through the years to keep pace with my kids developing knowledge of powerful women in the pantheon of world history. Meyer's many works on famous queens contributed to my daughters' belief that they could be anything they wanted to be and tweaked their imaginations as they donned regal garb to present plays in the garage and relegated their two brothers to playing their courtiers and jesters.
Now at last, Meyer has brought her vivid characterizations to life in a novel for me. In Brown Eyes Blue, through Lavinia, Dorcas, and Sasha, Meyer presents the difficult, often daunting, three generational family sandwich so many of us have lived through or are living. Dorcas, in her mid-fifties and struggling with her own dramatic change of life issues of career and romance, is caught off balance between an outspoken and hypercritical elderly mother who is showing signs of senility and a needy, twenty-something daughter whom Dorcas thought was safely launched into adulthood but who arrives back on mom's doorstep, seemingly the same troubled teenager who left home several years before.
As with her children's books, Meyer's novel is spare with overblown description that bogs you down but rich with metaphor and realistic dialogue that takes you there.
As someone who was once a Sasha, who has very recently played the role of Dorcas and who one day can only hope to be as colorful and entertaining as Lavinia, I feel highly qualified to recommend Brown Eyes Blue to other avid readers of fiction. It's a wonderful read and one can only hope that Carolyn Meyer is at work on her sequel.
Perfect Book Club Choice.......2003-03-31
Brown Eyes Blue is a wonderful book about the relationships that women have....with other women, with men, and with themselves. It made me think about the choices I have made in life, my expectations regarding romance and the times I have sold myself short. The characters are wonderful! This is the perfect book for a book club to read and discuss. I strongly recommend it.
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David Farland's "Runelords" fantasy sequence began in 1998 with The Sum of All Men, a career-relaunch novel whose sales far outstripped earlier SF published under his real name Dave Wolverton. Runelords are supermen whose strength, stamina, and vision, and other physical abilities are multiplied by magical "endowments" transferred from unfortunate donors who are crippled by their loss: the archvillain in the story is virtually invincible thanks to tens of thousands of endowments.
This second book avoids middle-volume doldrums by introducing a vast onslaught of still tougher and memorably unpleasant nonhumans who even the villains must oppose. Meanwhile, various characters skirmish on different parts of the map, and the hero struggles with unreliable powers conferred on him when he was chosen as Earth King to save the land and humanity--or maybe only a tiny part of each.
Farland maintains a steady flow of new situations, reversals, gambits, and surprises ... it's a real shock when one chap who has incurred a dreadful penalty for virtuous reasons is not spared (as expected in the normal chivalry of fantasyland) but rather pays the full, eye-watering price. One small criticism: the writing contains occasional sloppiness and repetition. Nonetheless, this is a rousing, painfully gripping story. --David Langford, Amazon.co.uk
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Volume Two of The RunelordsRaj Ahtan, ruler of Indhopal, has used enough forcibles to transform himself into the ultimate warrior: The Sum of All Men. Ahtan seeks to bring all of humanity under his rule-destroying anything and anyone that stood in his path, including many friends and allies of young Prince Gaborn Val Orden. But Gaborn has fulfilled a two-thousand-year-old prophecy, becoming the Earth King-a mythic figure who can unleash the forces of the Earth itself. And now the struggle continues. Gaborn has managed to drive off Raj Ahtan, but Ahtan is far from defeated. Striking at far-flung cities and fortresses and killing dedicates, Ahtan seeks to draw out the Earth King from his seat of power, to crush him. But as they weaken each other's forces in battle, the armies of an ancient and implacable inhuman enemy issue forth from the very bowels of the Earth.
Customer Reviews:
Maintains the flavor of the first.......2005-04-17
If you enjoyed the first book in the series, I see no reason why you wouldn't enjoy this one, too. On the flip side, if you disliked the first book, you probably won't like this one. For me, this book continued the same tone and pacing as the first. The first 3/4 is subplots and characters coming together for a massive multi-chapter battle/climax in the last 1/4. Yes, some ideas and plot points, like the Days, are pushed to the back, but other characters and subplots are brought in to fill the gaps.
I don't understand the other reviews on Amazon that say it is either much worse than the first or much better. It seemed much the same. Don't get me wrong - it doesn't stagnate, it just keeps a similar feel.
Again, if you liked the first, I recommend that you continue reading.
Not the worst I have ever read........2004-07-16
I have read the first two books in this series and will stop while I can still give the series more than one star. The problem with the books is the basic premise. Earth and water are good and the saviors of man kind, fire and air are bad and seek to destroy man kind. How do you reason this out? It makes no sense. Further, I do not understand why the author sets up such an interesting gimmik (the whole endowment share) and immediately condems it. Whether the basic idea is good or evil, real people who lived with this type of thing for thousands of years would not suddenly find it reprehensible (as the main characters do). Also, if the main characters find such a system repulsive, why continue to indulge in it? The book makes sense on a superficial level, but does not hold up under greater scrutiny. It is hard to suspend your disbelief when you can not accept the basic human choices made by the characters. Overall, I would say this series is mediocre at best and that if you are new to fantasy then don't waste your time here but seek out better books.
A Good Sequel--But Not a Great One.......2004-05-27
Some reviewers have said this book is far better than the first in this series, The Runelords. Others have derided David Farland's entire endeavor here as too slow-paced or lacking in sufficient detail.
As for me, I'm not really sure how I feel--but I suppose ambivalence is not what authors want readers to feel.
To his credit, Farland continues to elaborate on his cunningly devised system of magic and to emphasize the social aspects of that system (wherein an individual's traits, like strength, beauty and intelligence can be passed to another). The taking of such attributes from animals is a major point here, as well as the source of the book's title, and is handled well. I also appreciate that Farland sticks to his fairly straightforward set of rules and conventions regarding this magic system, rather than continuing to nuance and augment the system with previously undisclosed limitations or abilities.
For those who enjoyed the breakneck pacing of the first book, Farland moves from event to event quickly in Brotherhood of the Wolf as he did in The Runelords, but spreads his story over a larger number of characters, which slows the pace. This is the trend now in epic-fantast series, and while it helps flesh out the world in which the stories are set, I worry for Farland about the kind of character bloat seen recently from Robert Jordan.
As in the previous book, the characters, and especially Gaborn, the lead, spend a great deal of time in their own heads, debating and torturing themselves over their problems. Gaborn's centers on his inability to protect everyone. Iome and Myrrima worry about taking endowments from animals. Borenson worries first about atoning for the murder of Sylvarresta and then about how to be close to Raj Ahten's consort. This also slows the pace considerably. Raj Ahten's obsessions, however, seem to fit with his character, as Farland shows him to be increasingly mad and vain.
The inexorable reavers make an extended appearance here, and they live up to their billing in the previous volume as ferocious and terrible.
There are several wrenching, graphic details--especially one at the end--that turned my stomach. While this may upset some and seem to detract from the book as I initially thought it did, I think it adds an edge to the story that raises the stakes for all of the characters.
All in all, a solid read if you enjoyed The Runelords, though not nearly as compelling or as well executed.
Pascifism makes for poor bedfellow.......2004-04-19
I think in some respects this series is well written, but for the average sci-fi fantasy fan it is boring and frustrating. It really annoys me how often the somewhat ill-defined protaganist Gabborn wrestles with moral quandries meanwhile his people are being slaughtered. "Is it right to take an endowment from such and such"? "Only under so and so circumstances"...then that whole line of thinking is flushed by another wave of youthful naivete. The whole combat system is basically who has the most endowments wins....boring. The big bad monster of the book makes a quick cameo before it gets "offed" by a skirt with a bow and arrow (real imaginitive) and worst of all...the main charachters, first Binnesman and then Gaborn beg and plead with the "bad guy" to please stop killing them and listen to reason....I didn't want to pick up a fantasy book and read basically a history lesson of Neville Chamberlain and the way he negotiated with Hitler.
Anyways...having said all that I did like the chapter that introduced Averen and dealt with the skyriding...was entertaining and unique.
Hope in dark times.......2003-11-17
Both Terry Goodkind and Robert Jordan seem to have abandonded the path of writing skillfull and good fantasy novel, and have entered the path of money making.
Too often the readers are the victim of the American policy of 'Writes get paid by the page...' (this in contrast to the English system where writers get paid by the book)
Fortunately there is Farland...
Enthralling and orignal story line, well developed characters, and the sinister truth behind the character's strength and beauty...thumbs up!
A good fantasy series so far, and well worth your time.
Let us hope that he can avoid the trap so many fantasy writers before him fell in. That he knows a way to keep things interesting and end the series somewhere before Part XX...
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A great read, and a MUST to understand how the bikers evolved.........2007-10-11
This book is amazing,
It is not a high crime Aaction, instead Daniel R. Wolf (RIP) wrote in great length about what it was all about in the early 70's and 80', a brotherhood.
You must read this book before you read 'The Road to Hell' to understand how the whole scene has moved and shifted, the biker scene is not 'righteous' anymore .. and sadly so.
Again, the book is a pleasure to ride and bridges the gap between the Idealistic fantasy of bikers and the harsh realities.
FANTASTIC.......2005-11-24
hmmm well I read this book, funny thing is, living it all in real life, is really quite different, you see, my Dad is one of the founding members of the Edmonton Rebels MC, and very proud of it as well, as I am of him. To me he is the greatest man ever and always will be. In Rebels memorabilia I am not lacking lol. Wonderful book, and a very interesting read its just too bad that the proceeds will go to the goon who wrote it. lol Hell maybe one day Ill write my own damn book about it all hmmmmm
Ps: I know your reading this Steve and laughing as usual... love ya bud, give Suzanne a hug from me.
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Best book I've read so far on the subject.......2004-05-02
I have ridden for 30 years. I grew up in Oakland California, and I worked in motorcycle shops in Berkeley California so I know something of the outlaw culture from being around one of the centers.
This is the best book on outlaw culture I have ever read if being complete matters. It is not boring, it is fascinating. It is lively, far-reaching and Wolf isn't just another SOB who gathered some gore from Rotten.com, rewrote a few newspaper articles and called it a book.
And, it is about a club other than the Angels. I would not argue that the Angels in many ways define outlawdom but I also know there are many more outlaws (not Outlaws, another one of the Big 4) than members of the H.A.M.C. so this may be more representative than even authoritative works like Barger's. I am purchasing this book after having checked it out and read it from the library so I guess I am voting with my wallet, too.
Tedious but marginally interesting..........2003-03-07
This book is poorly written and slow going, but offers just enough interesting information to keep you reading. Apparently this guy spent a number of years hanging out with and gaining the trust of this local biker gang and then, with their permission, used them as the subject of his anthropology thesis. The book seems to be a quick re-formatted/re-write of his thesis and as such often contains boring socialogical analysis and an overall plodding style. In many chapters he makes a single point and then bangs it into the ground for 10 or 12 pages as if he was getting extra credit for the number of pages instead of the quality of the content. Additionally, he repeats himself several times, with the same quotes and anecdotes popping up over and over in the book.
In spite of the tedious and shoddy writing style though, the book does offer enough genuine first-hand observations about biker club life to reward your patience, but they are few and far between.
Additionally, for those interested in learning about organized crime aspects of biker gangs this book contains no information on that aspect, since the club the author was riding with apparently did not engage in these types of activities.
If you are interested to find out what the day-to-day lifestyle of your average outlaw biker is like, then this book provides some honest, unsensationalized info.
MUST READ FOR THOSE INTERESTED IN BIKERS.......2003-02-17
THIS BOOK IS THE BE ALL/END ALL FOR THOSE INTERESTED IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF THE BIKE CLUB. THIS BOOK LAYS OUT, IN GREAT DETAIL, WHAT BECOMMING A MEMBER OF AN OUTLAW CLUB ENTAILS. GOING THROUGH EACH STEP OF THE PROCESS, WOLF IS ACCUTELY AWARE OF HIS SUBJECTS' MOTIVATION, NEEDS, DEDICATION, LOYALTIES, AND LOVE OF BROTHER AND BIKE. THIS BOOK BRINGS YOU INTO THAT PROCESS. READ THIS BOOK AND DECIDE IF YOU CAN HANDLE IT. READ THIS BOOK AND GAIN INSIGHTFUL INFORMATION ABOUT THESE MEN WHO CHOSE TO LIVE ON THE FRINGE OF SOCIETY YET MUST LEARN TO INTERACT WITH IT IN ORDER TO MAINTAIN THEIR WAY OF LIFE. I HAVE READ THIS BOOK TWICE, HIGHLIGHTED THROUGHOUT ITS CONTENTS, AND LOOK FORWARD TO MY NEXT READING. ABSOLUTLEY INVALUABLE! AN IMPORTANT BOOK.
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