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Queen of the Owls

by Barbara Linn Probst
Queen of the Owls

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ISBN13: 9781631528903
ISBN10: 1631528904



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A chance meeting with a charismatic photographer will forever change Elizabeth's life. Until she met Richard, Elizabeth's relationship with Georgia O'Keeffe and her little-known Hawaii paintings was purely academic. Now it's personal. Richard tells Elizabeth that the only way she can truly understand O'Keeffe isn't with her mind--it's by getting into O'Keeffe's skin and reenacting her famous nude photos. In the intimacy of Richard's studio, Elizabeth experiences a new, intoxicating abandon and fullness. It never occurs to her that the photographs might be made public, especially without her consent. Desperate to avoid exposure--she's a rising star in the academic world and the mother of young children--Elizabeth demands that Richard dismantle the exhibit. But he refuses. The pictures are his art. His property, not hers. As word of the photos spreads, Elizabeth unwittingly becomes a feminist heroine to her students, who misunderstand her motives in posing. To the university, however, her actions are a public scandal. To her husband, they're a public humiliation. Yet Richard has reawakened an awareness that's haunted Elizabeth since she was a child--the truth that cerebral knowledge will never be enough. Now she must face the question: How much is she willing to risk to be truly seen and known?

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That tingly feeling you get when you realize you’re reading a book that may have created a new subgenre. The edginess of a thriller meets lush literary prose at the threshold of the stodgy hypocrisy of academia. Queen of the Owls is the crash course in the art of Georgia O’Keefe that you either did or didn’t know you wanted, raising unsettling but quietly triumphal questions of whether there can be opportunity in catastrophe, whether art justifies overriding the boundaries of consent, and what are the limits of using intellect alone to define success and a woman’s right to self-determination.

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.88IN
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5.50IN
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2019911275
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Barbara Linn Probst

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