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Heading to her home in Detroit during World War II, passionate art student Bianca Paradise accepts a job drawing portraits of wounded soldiers and experiences a spectrum of emotions that compromise her balance. By the author of The Friends of Freeland.
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The Art Student's War is Brad Leithauser's finest novel to date, deeply moving in its portrayal of a young aspiring artist and her immigrant family during Detroit&;s wartime heyday.The year is 1943. Bianca Paradiso is a pretty and ambitious eighteen-year-old studying to be an artist while her bustling, thriving hometown turns from mass-producing automobiles to rolling out fighter planes and tanks. For Bianca, national and personal conflicts begin to merge when she is asked to draw portraits of the wounded young soldiers who are filling local hospitals. Suddenly she must confront lives maimed at their outset as well as her own romantic yearnings, and she must do so at a time when another war&;a war within her own family&;is erupting.
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