02577cam a2200337 4500 759246810 TxAuBib 20170808120000.0 170612s2017||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 2017015541 9781432841102 lg. print : alk. paper 1432841106 lg. print : alk. paper KyBuM KyBuM TxGR TxAuBib Lico Albanese, Laurie, 1959- Stolen beauty [Large Type Book] / Laurie Lico Albanese. Large print ed. Farmington Hills, Mich : Thorndike Press/Gale Cengage Learning, 2017. 531 p. (large print) ; 23 cm. Thorndike Press large print basic. "A novel"--Cover. "1900: Adele Bloch-Bauer--young, beautiful, brilliant, and Jewish--meets the modern painter Gustav Klimt in turn-of-the-century Vienna when sex, art, and anti-Semitism are just beginning to break through the facade of conventional society. Her intoxicating vulnerability and intensity fuel a love triangle that threatens her world, even as it ignites the creation of Klimt's greatest works: Judith, the blood-lusty femme fatale; the Portrait of Adele in gold, and the voluptuous Kiss. But political hatred is brewing. A hungry young artist haunts Vienna's streets and museums, and his name is Adolf Hitler. 1938: Maria Altmann is a love-struck newlywed when the Nazis invade Austria, and overnight, her beloved Vienna becomes a war zone. When her husband is arrested and her family is forced out of their beautiful, stately home on the Ringstrasse, Maria must summon a courage she never knew she possessed--and faces impossible risks in order to preserve the legacy of heroism and brilliance that her aunt, the renowned Adele Bloch-Bauer, instilled in her. Twining the tales of two remarkable women across more than a hundred years, Stolen Beauty juxtaposes passion and discovery against hatred and despair, and shines a light on our ability to love, to destroy, and above all, to endure"--Provided by the publisher. 20170808. Bloch-Bauer, Adele 1881-1925 Fiction. Klimt, Gustav 1862-1918 Fiction. Altmann, Maria 1916-2011 Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 Austria Vienna Fiction. Vienna (Austria) History 20th century Fiction. Historical fiction. Thorndike Press large print basic. RV8