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Still lives : a novel / Maria Hummel.

Hummel, Maria, (author.).

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Kim Lord is an avant-garde figure, feminist icon, and agent provocateur in the L.A. art scene. Her groundbreaking new exhibition Still Lives is comprised of self-portraits depicting herself as famous, murdered women--the Black Dahlia, Chandra Levy, Nicole Brown Simpson, among many others--and the works are as compelling as they are disturbing, implicating a culture that is too accustomed to violence against women. As the city's richest art patrons pour into the Rocque Museum's opening night, all the staff, including editor Maggie Richter, hope the event will be enough to save the historic institution's flailing finances. Except Kim Lord never shows up to her own gala. Fear mounts as the hours and days drag on and Lord remains missing.

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  • ISBN: 1619021110
  • ISBN: 9781619021112
  • Physical Description: 277 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: Hardback edition.
  • Publisher: Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint Press, [2018]
Subject: Art museums > Fiction.
Feminism and art > Fiction.
Los Angeles (Calif.) > Fiction.
Genre: Thrillers (Fiction)

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  • 12 of 13 copies available at Missouri Evergreen.
  • 2 of 2 copies available at Trails Regional. (Show)
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Barton County - Liberal FIC HUM (Text) 31096180044830 Adult Fiction Available -
Cape Girardeau Public Library HUM (Text) 33042004546530 Adult Fiction Checked out 05/01/2024
Carthage Public Library FIC Hummel, Maria (Text) 34MO2001802598 Adult Fiction Available -
Jefferson County Library-Arnold F HUMMEL Maria (Text) 30061000259107 Fiction Available -
Livingston County Library - Main Library HUMMEL (Text) 2601833548 Adult Fiction Available -
Nevada Public Library FIC HUM 2018 (Text) 32770114394992 Adult Fiction Available -
North Kansas City Public Library FICTION HUMMEL 2018 (Text) 0001002250924 Fiction Available -
Scenic Regional-Union FIC HUM (Text) 3005880818 Fiction Available -
St. Joseph - Downtown Library MYSTERY HUM (Text) 32002003720008 Adult Mystery Available -
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Still Lives : A Novel
Still Lives : A Novel
by Hummel, Maria
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Still Lives : A Novel


Twelve shocking paintings. Eleven famous murders. One missing artist . . . and one woman driven to find her-this Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine Selection is a "stunning achievement" ( Los Angeles Times ). Kim Lord is an avant-garde figure, feminist icon, and agent provocateur in the L.A. art scene. Her groundbreaking new exhibition Still Lives is comprised of self-portraits depicting herself as famous, murdered women―the Black Dahlia, Chandra Levy, Nicole Brown Simpson, among many others―and the works are as compelling as they are disturbing, implicating a culture that is too accustomed to violence against women. As the city's richest art patrons pour into the Rocque Museum's opening night, all the staff, including editor Maggie Richter, hope the event will be enough to save the historic institution's flailing finances. Except Kim Lord never shows up to her own gala. Fear mounts as the hours and days drag on and Lord remains missing. Suspicion falls on the up-and-coming gallerist Greg Shaw Ferguson, who happens to be Maggie's ex. A rogue's gallery of eccentric art world figures could also have motive for the act, and as Maggie gets drawn into her own investigation of Lord's disappearance, she'll come to suspect all of those closest to her. Set against a culture that often fetishizes violence, Still Lives is a page-turning exodus into the art world's hall of mirrors, and one woman's journey into the belly of an industry flooded with money and secrets. "It's a thrilling mystery that will leave you wondering which characters you can and can't trust . . . There's a twist at the end that still keeps us up at night, it's THAT good." -Reese Witherspoon (A Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine Selection)

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