Master Lovers
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While clearing out his great aunt's midtown apartment after her death, author David Winner discovered artifacts of her storied existence: notes from opera stars, love letters and artifacts from the Middle East of the 1930's. His Aunt Dorle had been a co-founder of Angel Records and a prominent figure in the mid-century classical music world. But the more he learned about her world, the more complicated her story became, a twisted puzzle full of love and fascism, a record of a young woman grappling with her attraction to lovers with hair-raising political ties. A powerful work of family discovery, rooted in a bygone Midtown Manhattan and involving artists and politicians from around the world.
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"This book is a brilliant concoction, equal to the ingredients that might have been combined in Dorle's cocktail shaker: fact, fiction, revelation, riddles. It has a sad ending - though one that is so kind. The tenderness broke my heart." - Ann Beattie, winner of the Rea Award for the Short Story
"Through compassion, doggedness, imagination, and an utter absence of sentimentality, David Winner gives us an unforgettable portrait of both a spirited, flawed, mysterious woman and a fascinating era that is no more. Master Lovers is a gem." - Clifford Thompson, author of What It Is: Race, Family, and One Thinking Black Man's Blues and Big Man and the Little Men: A Graphic Novel