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Bruised world.

Publication: Lambda Book Report
Publication Date: 01-NOV-04 		Format: Online - approximately 862 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Bruised world.(Book Review)

Article Excerpt
King Of Cats: A Life in Five Novellas

By Blake Fraina

iUniverse

ISBN 0-595-30756-6

PB, $16.98, 236 pp.

In the book Unforgettable Fire: Pictures Drawn by Atomic Bomb Survivors, the horror of the atomic bomb is graphically recounted by survivors of the Hiroshima bombing through their drawings of the event and its after affects. We learn that mushroom clouds can look like piles of cotton candy to a child. Such sobering artwork is necessary to remind ourselves of humans' potentially dark nature.

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Though it's common for war, like love, to inspire artwork, it's not as often that we find such unflinching writing inspired by artwork. Tracy Chevalier's Girl with a Pearl Earring comes to mind, with its vivid 1900s Delft brought to life, as inspired by...

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