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    My Life as a Silent Movie: A Novel

    By Jesse Lee Kercheval

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    After losing her husband and daughter in an auto accident, 42-year-old Emma flies to Paris, discovers she has a twin brother whose existence she had not known about, and learns that her birth parents weren't the Americans who raised her, but a White Russian film star of the 1920s and a French Stalinist. A story about identity and the shaping function of art, My Life as a Silent Movie presents a vividly rendered world and poses provocative questions on the relationship of art to life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIndiana University Press
    Release dateSep 13, 2013
    ISBN9780253010254
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    My Life as a Silent Movie: A Novel
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    Jesse Lee Kercheval

    Jesse Lee Kercheval is a professor emerita at the University Wisconsin–Madison. She is the author of over twenty-five books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction and the translator of ten books of Uruguayan poetry.

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      A woman discovers that she adopted and goes in search of her biological parents. The plot is full of too many unbelievable coincidences although it's entertaining.