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Famed artists are peripheral players in today's sensual novels

A sexually eager young woman overstepping 18th-century society's bounds, a feminist pilloried by the press for deserting her children for her lover, and an alluring but impoverished boy prostitute: In recent novels that embroider literary or artistic history, the leading characters are sexy things. They represent a departure for novels that supplement or fill in the facts about artists' lives, which usually require a famous

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