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I've always had the most enormous curiosity about the legendary subject of Sargent's most famous and certainly most scandalous painting. Now Deborah Davis tells Madame X's extraordinary personal history, both before and after the notoriety that changed her life. I was fascinated.

""Readers will enjoy this brisk, sometimes breathless account of the creation of the work the artist once called his best...A fascinating commentary on the evanescence of fame and beauty."" --Kirkus Reviews ""An entertaining, observant novel about the gorgeous, enigmatic Madame X."" --from Bustle.com's roundup of ""11 Novels Every Art History-Lover Should Pick Up"" ""A stunner about a stunner."" —The Philadelphia Inquirer ""The book's pace is lively and its breadth impressive."" —Houston Chronicle

A stunner about a stunner. --The Philadelphia Inquirer

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Deborah Davis is the author of Party of the Century: The Fabulous Story of Truman Capote and his Black and White Ball (Wiley, April 2006), and Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X (Tarcher/Putnam, 2003). Her most recent book is The Secret Lives Of Frames: One Hundred Years of Art and Artistry (Filapacchi, 2007).

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