Breath and Bones

In 1884, Famke Summerfugl is ousted from her convent in Denmark for ... sensuousness and pulled from servitude by a second-rate painter named Albert Castle. Loving to be looked at, and able to stand perfectly still without shivering, Famke is the ideal artist's model.

When Albert takes his eight-foot masterpiece and leaves his model behind, Famke sets out over the Atlantic, convinced that she is his muse.

Following Mirabilis, her highly acclaimed debut, Susann Cokal blends pre-Raphaelite painting, American brothels, Utahan polygamists, a bit of cross-dressing, a dynamite-wielding labor movement, one California millionaire, and the invention of electrical stimulation (as treatment for consumption) into a comic novel that gallops across the American west.


Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Unbridled Books
Published: 05/03/2006
ISBN: 9781932961157
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.18lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.02w x 1.08d

Review Citations: New York Times 04/16/2006 pg. 24