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M. J. Rose is the author of the novels Lip Service, In Fidelity,
and Flesh Tones, as well as How to Promote and Publish Online. Visit
M.J. Rose's website at www.mjrose.com.
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Flesh Tones
In a New York courtroom, a woman stands accused of a controversial crime. Genny Haviland, thirty-eight, is said to have drugged and suffocated legendary painter George Gabriel. For two decades the tempestuous Gabriel has challenged audiences with his wild work. And in the end, the prosecution claims, he alienated the woman he first seduced, then enslaved-enough to cause his own death at her hands. Yet in Genny’s mind there rests another story, one that started twenty years before . . . one in which a college girl on summer break met an older, attractive artist-and began a forbidden affair she would never forget, a shadowy, sensual union in which she was more helpless and more powerful than she would ever imagine. Then the discovery of a shocking secret blew it all apart: Genny’s father was Jonathan Haviland, the renowned gallery owner who could make or break Gabriel’s career. Now Genny contends she was only easing her old lover to a painless death, allowing him to escape the awful illness that was slowly eroding his sanity and self. But is that the whole truth? Or was Gabriel indeed killed-but for far more sordid reasons, from a motive driven by scandal and the threat of financial ruin? How much would Genny do for the man she professed to love, or for the father who has always loomed darkly in the background of her life?
M. J. Rose's Summer Reading List
Miss Garnet's Angel
by Salley Vickers
I just finished reading Vickers other novel - Instances of
the Number 3 and was astounded. I haven't enjoyed a book this much
since Possession by A.S. Byatt. Vickers writes witty, intelligent
and accessible literary fiction that works on multiple levels. Full
of surprises and characters that stay with you long after you finish
the book.
The Portrait of a Lady
by Henry James
A group of readers I trust at Readerville.com are all reading
this in June and I thought I'd join in. Earlier this year I read James'
novella The Aspern Papers and rekindled my interest in James.
Atonement
by Ian McEwan
I can't believe it's taken me this long to get to this prize
winner.
The Year of Ice
by Brian Malloy
I had the pleasure of hearing Malloy read from this debut novel
in May and had tears running down my cheeks.
Sons of Heaven
by Terrence Cheng
I bought this after spending time at Cheng's site. The book
is about the Tiananmen Square massacre and its participants. Inspired
by the famous footage of the unknown man who stopped the tanks and
the reviews have been stellar.
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