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The jump artist / Austin Ratner.
Van Pelt Library PS3618.A875 J86 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ratner, Austin.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Halsman, Philippe--Trials, litigation, etc--Fiction.
- Halsman, Philippe.
- Antisemitism--Austria--Fiction.
- Antisemitism.
- National socialism--Austria--Fiction.
- National socialism.
- Austria--Fiction.
- Austria.
- Photographers--Fiction.
- Photographers.
- National Socialism.
- Trials.
- Medical Subjects:
- National Socialism.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Biographical fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 252 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bellevue Literary Press, 2009.
- Summary:
- Evocative psychological fiction based on the true story of renowned photographer Philippe Halsman, a man Adolph Hitler knew by name, who Sigmund Freud wrote about in 1931, and who put Marilyn Monroe on the cover of Life magazine. Surviving an episode that presages the horrors of WWII, Halsman transforms himself from a victim of rampant anti-Semitism into a purveyor of the marvelous.
- Notes:
- Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, Winner, 2011
- Other Format:
- Online version: Ratner, Austin. Jump artist.
- ISBN:
- 9781934137154
- 1934137154
- OCLC:
- 261176384
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