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The Insatiable Fiction of Desire
Harris, Elise | December 3, 2001 issue

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The article focuses on the books "Dangerous Muse," by Nancy Schoenberger and "The Artist's Wife," by Max Phillips. Schoenberger and Phillips take on a challenging task in resurrecting women possessing beauty, persuasive charm and dominating personality. Phillips's novel is narrated from beyond the grave by Alma Mahler-Werfel, the daughter of Emil Schindler, one of the most prominent painters of nineteenth-century Vienna, who died when she was 13. Schoenberger book is a biography that sees a woman through the eyes of her husbands.

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BOOKS; DANGEROUS Muse (Book); PHILLIPS, Max; SCHOENBERGER, Nancy; ARTIST'S Wife, The (Book); WOMEN; BIOGRAPHY
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