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The Face of a Naked Lady: An Omaha Family Mystery Paperback - 2006
by Michael Rips
Rips returns to his Omaha family home to discover a hidden portfolio of paintings--all done by his late father, all of a naked black woman. So begins a gloriously funny yet deeply serious gem of a book that offers more than a little redemption in our cynical times.
Summary
In a strangely fascinating memoir that could be described as Middle American gothic, Michael Rips delves into the secret past of his family and their seemingly sleepy Nebraska hometown, exposing the eccentricities and surprises that lurk below the surface. Rips learns that his father was raised in a notorious brothel rumored to have Mob ties. From here, the revelations get stranger, with stories of a dead man who fell through a ceiling, a man who wears a prosthetic penis on his boot to attract the ladies, a homeless millionaire, and a chicken-abusing adolescent. Intertwining past and present, this disarming, absorbing memoir is framed by Rips’s search to identify a woman who posed years earlier for one of his father’s paintings.
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A WOMAN set a coffee before me, and I thought of the first time that I saw a woman fly.
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- Title The Face of a Naked Lady: An Omaha Family Mystery
- Author Michael Rips
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 208
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Mariner Books
- Date 2006-06-12
- Features Price on Product - Canadian
- ISBN 9780618711895 / 0618711899
- Weight 0.49 lbs (0.22 kg)
- Dimensions 7.92 x 5.24 x 0.56 in (20.12 x 13.31 x 1.42 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Plains
- Cultural Region: Upper Midwest
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: Nebraska
- Locality: Omaha, Nebraska
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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- Foreword, 09/01/2005, Page 1
- New York Times, 08/06/2006, Page 24
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