ARTIST, SOLDIER, LOVER, MUSE. A NOVEL - Tecno-Libro

Freshly graduated from Yale in 1935, Henry J. Kapler parlays his talent, determination, and creative energy into a burgeoning art career in New York under the wing of artists such as Edward Hopper and Reginald Marsh. .The young artist first gains notoriety when his depiction of a symbolic, interracial handshake between ballplayers is attacked by a knife-wielding assailant at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington. .Yet even as his art star rises, his personal life turns precarious and perilous when his love for Fiona, a young WPA muralist, collides with his growing attraction to the exquisitely beautiful Alice, an ex-chorus girl who becomes his model and muse. .Alice is the girlfriend of Fiona s cousin, Jake Powell, the hotheaded, hard-drinking outfielder for the New York Yankees whose jealousy explodes into abuse and rage, endangering the lives of all three. .While Henry wrestles with his complicated love life, he also struggles mightily to reconcile his pacifism with the