A beautifully scrupulous intricately detailed novel about joy and despairantiSemitism and assimilation and like a great photograph it seems to missnothing and t... » 

A beautifully scrupulous intricately detailed novel about joy and despairantiSemitism and assimilation and like a great photograph it seems to missnothing and to catch its subject in all his complexity.Charles BaxterEvocative psychological fiction based on the true story of renownedphotographer Philippe Halsman a man Adolph Hitler knew by name who SigmundFreud wrote about in 1931 and who put Marilyn Monroe on the cover of Lifemagazine. Surviving an episode that presages the horrors of WWII Halsmantransforms himself from a victim of rampant antiSemitism into a purveyor ofthe marvelous. «