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A missing painting by a legendary suicide provides the key to John Ed Bradleys mesmerizing novel of New Orleansa city where art, sex, and race link the citys decadent past with its decaying present. The mysterious Levette Asmore was a legend in New Orleans even before he apparently threw himself off the Huey P. Long Bridge in 1941 at the height of his creative powers. Widely regarded as the finest and most original painter ever produced by the American South, Asmore won fame for a series of portraits depicting beautiful young women with whom he was rumored to be sexually involved. And while a certain promiscuity was long tolerated in the old, benighted city, there was no hiding Asmores secret past in the dark heart of Depression-era Louisiana. When a newspaper reported that the WPA mural he was painting laid waste to sexual taboos and the prevailing racial order, Asmore was ordered to whitewash the masterpiece before the public was allowed to see it. Weeks after doing so, he was dead. New Orleans, present day. A young journalist named Jack Charbonnet and the woman he desperately wants, painting restorer Rhys Goudeau, discover that Asmore might not have destroyed his infamous mural

Who reads Restoration : a Novel?

Author

Bradley, John Ed

Publisher

Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780385502610

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

4.2 / 5 (14 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14