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The Great Man

Kate Christensen · 2007 CE · Novel · Modern / American · Contemporary

Two biographers of a celebrated New York figurative painter, newly dead, come to interview the women who survived him: his wife, his mistress and his sister. Their rival accounts of him are the novel's subject, a comedy about who is left to remember a great man.

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