Lesson in Red by Maria Hummel
A companion to Still Lives-a Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine selection-this savvy thriller exposes dark questions about power and the art world and reveals the fatal mistakes that can befall those who threaten its status quo.Brenae Brasil is a rising star at Los Angeles Art College, the most prestigious art school in the country, and her path to art world celebrity is all but assured. Until she is found dead on campus, just after completing a provocative documentary about female bodies, coercion, and self-defense.
Maggie Richter's return to L.A. and her job at the Rocque Museum was supposed to be about restarting her career and reconnecting with old friends. With mounting pressure to keep the museum open, the last thing she needs is to find herself at the center of another art world mystery. But when she uncovers a number of cryptic clues in Brasil's video art, Maggie is suddenly caught up in the shadowy art world of Los Angeles, playing a very dangerous game with some very influential people. And the closer she gets to the truth, the more lies she threatens to expose.
Maria Hummel, praised for her "genius for layering levels of meaning" (BBC), has brought us back to her provocative noir Los Angeles with this haunting investigation into power and the art world.
Maria Hummel is a poet and a novelist. Still Lives, her most recent book, was a Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Novel Club pick, a Book of the Month Club pick, and a BBC Culture Best Book of 2018, and has been optioned for television and translated into several languages. Motherland, a San Francisco Chronicle Book of the Year, and House and Fire, winner of the APR/Honickman Poetry Award, are among her other works. She's worked and taught at places including the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Stanford University, and the University of Vermont. Her husband and sons live in Vermont with her.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781640095281 |
| ISBN 10 | 1640095284 |
| Title | Lesson in Red |
| Author | Maria Hummel |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Counterpoint |
| Year published | 2022-06-21 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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