In 1884, Famke Summerfugl is ousted from her convent in Denmark for ...sensuousness and pulled from servitude by a second-rate painter named Albert Castle. Loving to be looked at, and able to stand perfectly still without shivering, Famke is the ideal artist's model. When Albert takes his eight-foot masterpiece and leaves his model behind, Famke sets out over the Atlantic, convinced that she is his muse. Following Mirabilis, her highly acclaimed debut, Susann Cokal blends pre-Raphaelite painting, American brothels, Utahan polygamists, a bit of cross-dressing, a dynamite-wielding labor movement, one California millionaire, and the invention of electrical stimulation (as treatment for consumption) into a comic novel that gallops across the American west.
- ISBN10 1932961151
- ISBN13 9781932961157
- Publish Date 15 June 2006 (first published 19 May 2005)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Unbridled Books
- Edition First Trade Paper Edition
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 400
- Language English