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After losing her husband and daughter in an auto accident, 42-year-old Emma flies to Paris, discovers she has a twin brother whose existence she had not known about, and learns that her birth parents weren't the Americans who raised her, but a White Russian film star of the 1920s and a French Stalinist. A story about identity and the shaping function of art, My Life as a Silent Movie presents a vividly rendered world and poses provocative questions on the relationship of art to life.

My Life as a Silent Movie: A Novel

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After losing her husband and daughter in an auto accident, 42-year-old Emma flies to Paris, discovers she has a twin... Read more

    Publisher: Indiana University Press
    Publication Date: 13/09/2013
    ISBN13: 9780253010247, 978-0253010247
    ISBN10: 0253010241

    Number of Pages: 220

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    After losing her husband and daughter in an auto accident, 42-year-old Emma flies to Paris, discovers she has a twin brother whose existence she had not known about, and learns that her birth parents weren't the Americans who raised her, but a White Russian film star of the 1920s and a French Stalinist. A story about identity and the shaping function of art, My Life as a Silent Movie presents a vividly rendered world and poses provocative questions on the relationship of art to life.

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