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Winner of 5 major book awards, including the Publishers Weekly U.S. 2021 Selfies Award for Best Adult Fiction and winner of the IndieReader 2021 Discovery Award.
âLâOrigine got me hookedâwhat a story! Milgrom brings the reader right along on her adventures as a copyist of one of the most well-knownâŠ
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LâOrigine by artist and writer Lilianne Milgrom is a unique, well-researched, and absolutely compelling book. Part history and part memoir, it tells the story of Gustave Courbetâs LâOrigine du monde, a painting known as âthe worldâs most erotic masterpiece,â along with its effect on a young woman (the author) who set out to be its official âcopyist.â Ultimately, it is the painting itself that liberates and transforms the protagonistâjust as it will liberate and transform the reader! It certainly did that for me, cutting through all my ideas about the role of art and its depictions of the femaleâŠ
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