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By Antonia Logue

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

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.