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By Antonia Logue

Subjects: Historical fiction, Fiction, Correspondance, Letters, Epistolary fiction, Romans, nouvelles, Irish authors, English fiction, Correspondence, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, general

Description: The story of 1910s painter Mina Loy, onetime lover of Henri Matisse, and her doomed romance with boxer and art critic Arthur Cravan. It is told through correspondence between Loy and Cravan's friend, black boxing champ Jack Johnson. A look at the world of avant-garde art by an Irish writer.