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Tiepolo Blue

By James Cahill

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Publish Date: 2022

Exiled from his university position for an inexcusable blunder, art historian Don Lamb flees to London, a city alive with sex and creativity. There, over the course of a long, hot summer, as he is immersed in the anarchic art and gay scenes of the mid-90s, Don sees his carefully curated life irrevocably changed.

But his epiphany is also a reckoning, as his unexamined past is revealed to him in a devastating new light.

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