The Art Student's War

by Brad Leithauser

Book Overview

The Art Student's War is Brad Leithauser's finest novel to date, deeply moving in its portrayal of a young aspiring artist and her immigrant family during Detroit's wartime heyday.

The year is 1943. Bianca Paradiso is a pretty and ambitious eighteen-year-old studying to be an artist while her bustling, thriving hometown turns from mass-producing automobiles to rolling out fighter planes and tanks. For Bianca, national and personal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030745620X
• ISBN13: 9780307456205
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.2" x 8.0"