Ellis Avery

Join Off the Beaten Path, RED Contemporary Gallery, and Ski Town Spirits at 6pm for a FREE tasting featuring: Art, Books, and Wine.

OTBP will be featuring "The Last Nude" by Ellis Avery, "Till I End My Song" by Harold Bloom and previewing "Sacre Bleu" by Christopher Moore.

RED will feature 3 artists presenting new work with the theme of artists and their muses. As well as a live model being sketched during the event.

Ski Town Spirits will present 4 varietals of rich, delicious wines. Attachment Size artbookwineposter_march7_web.jpg 194.22 KB

Location: Street: RED Contemporary Gallery - 2200 Village Inn Court City: Steamboat Springs, Province: Colorado Postal Code: 80487 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

The second novel by the author of The Teahouse Fire evokes the heady atmosphere of Paris in 1927. Rafaela Fano is a young American woman struggling to get by when she’s picked up by a glamorous dispossessed Russian aristocrat, the painter Tamara de Lempicka. Fano becomes de Lempicka’s model and lover, and the two embark on a partnership as tumultuous as the times.

Street: 5015 Connecticut Ave NW City: Washington, Province: District Of Columbia Postal Code: 20008 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Monday, February 6, 7 p.m.

Award-winning author Ellis Avery will read from and sign her second novel, The Last Nude.

Set in Paris in the 1920s, The Last Nude envisions an affair between Art Deco painter, Tamara de Lempicka and Rafaela, the model behind the artist's most celebrated works.

Avery is the author of The Teahouse Fire, winner of the American Library Association Stonewall Fiction Award. She teaches fiction writing at Columbia University and lives in New York City. del.icio.us Facebook Google StumbleUpon Twitter Yahoo

Location: Street: 1511 South 1500 East City: Salt Lake City, Province: Utah Postal Code: 84105 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Ellis Avery discusses The Last Nude.

Ellis Avery’s second novel, ”The Last Nude,” is a stunning story of love, sexual obsession, treachery and tragedy, about an artist and her most famous muse in Paris between the world wars. A young woman agrees to model for the Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka, and the two become lovers, the young woman becoming the artist’s most iconic Jazz age image. But their idyll is threatened by historical forces and the strains of a passionate relationship. Drawn from real-life events, ”The Last Nude” is ”a dazzling work of historical imagination.” Ellis Avery studied Japanese for five years in New York and Kyoto and now teaches creative writing at Columbia University. Her first novel was ”The Tehouse Fire” and she also has written a nonfiction work, ”The Smoke Week.” (jasbro)… (more)

Ellis Avery , The Teahouse Fire.

Ellis Avery is the author of The Teahouse Fire (Riverhead, 465 pp., $15 pb).The story of two women whose lives intersect in late nineteenth-century Japan, "The Teahouse Fire" is also a portrait of one of the most fascinating places and times in all of history--Japan as it opens its doors to the West. Told through the enchanting and unforgettable voice of Aurelia, an American orphan adopted by proprietors of a tea ceremony school, this is "a magisterial novel that is equal parts love story, imaginative history and bildungsroman, a story as alluring as it is powerful" ("Publishers Weekly," starred review).Ellis Avery studied Japanese tea ceremony for five years in New York and Kyoto, and now teaches creative writing at Columbia University. Her work has appeared in "The Village Voice," "Publishers Weekly," and "Kyoto Journal," among other publications. (booksense)… (more)

Ellis Avery reads from The Teahouse Fire.

A devout student of the Japanese Tea Ceremony, author Ellis Avery sets her
first novel in late 19th century Kyoto, Japan, when ancient Eastern traditions first collided with Western influence. Illuminating the enduring values of ritual, this impressive saga told through the lifelong relationship of two friends beautifully
renders the threads of change that weave their way into a culture over time. Those in attendance can expect a traditional tea ceremony performed by the author! (ablachly)… (more)