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Fugitive Colors
by Lisa Barr
They never think that we are capable of outsmarting them—saving our paintings before they have a chance to destroy them. Julian shook his head in disbelief. "I see. The goal is to save the art but not the artist?" "It is the art that matters to all of us. We come and go but our art lives on."
Fugitive Colors
Lisa Barr
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Lisa Barr can write a book for me any day. After devouring her upcoming March release Woman on Fire (and if you missed my interview with her, you can find it in my Instagram Highlights) I set out to read her backlist. Lisa and I discussed the fact that both Woman on Fire and her first novel, Fugitive Colors, weave in the degenerate art movement led by Hitler to demonize and destroy all the modern art in Europe. For Barr, it stems from a dark personal history as her father is a Holocaust survivor.
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Barr is a master at plot structure and Fugitive Colors was every bit as suspenseful as Woman on Fire - in no way did it feel like a freshman novel. She crafts setting, character and story so expertly but for me it is the way she brings us historical fiction and humanizes a horrific but important piece of history; her career as an investigative journalist is so apparent because her grasp of history and her passion for art shine through her fiction.
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I swore off most historical fiction a few years ago after feeling much of it had become formulaic (exactly the way I feel about thrillers) but if you put Lisa Barr and art history between the covers of a book, I am here for it.
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I said this about Woman on Fire and I'll say it about Fugitive Colors as well - these need to be movies! The writing is so vivid and the story so exciting, I could see it as I read and I'm not even a big movie goer so that is saying a lot.
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Last note is that I found this on audio and it was SO well done. Multi narrator presentation that was so well performed. Highly recommend that option.
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Fugitive Colors
Lisa Barr
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Lisa Barr can write a book for me any day. After devouring her upcoming March release Woman on Fire (and if you missed my interview with her, you can find it in my Instagram Highlights) I set out to read her backlist. Lisa and I discussed the fact that both Woman on Fire and her first novel, Fugitive Colors, weave in the degenerate art movement led by Hitler to demonize and destroy all the modern art in Europe. For Barr, it stems from a dark personal history as her father is a Holocaust survivor.
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Barr is a master at plot structure and Fugitive Colors was every bit as suspenseful as Woman on Fire - in no way did it feel like a freshman novel. She crafts setting, character and story so expertly but for me it is the way she brings us historical fiction and humanizes a horrific but important piece of history; her career as an investigative journalist is so apparent because her grasp of history and her passion for art shine through her fiction.
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I swore off most historical fiction a few years ago after feeling much of it had become formulaic (exactly the way I feel about thrillers) but if you put Lisa Barr and art history between the covers of a book, I am here for it.
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I said this about Woman on Fire and I'll say it about Fugitive Colors as well - these need to be movies! The writing is so vivid and the story so exciting, I could see it as I read and I'm not even a big movie goer so that is saying a lot.
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Last note is that I found this on audio and it was SO well done. Multi narrator presentation that was so well performed. Highly recommend that option.
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