The Great Man (novel)

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name = The Great Man: A Novel


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author = Kate Christensen
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country = United States
language = English
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genre = Novel
publisher = Doubleday (first edition)
pub_date = 2007
media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = 320 pp
isbn = ISBN 0385518455
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"The Great Man: A Novel" is a 2007 novel by American author Kate Christensen. It won the 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, beating nearly 350 other submissions and earning Christensen the $15,000 top prize. [cite web |url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/12/AR2008031201275.html |title=Behind Every Great Man... |last=Thompson |first=Bob |publisher=Washington Post |date=13 March 2008] The story takes place five years after the death, at 78, of celebrated painter Oscar Feldman, the "great man" of the title. Two competing biographers, both working to document the life and times of a man who made his fortune painting nude women, turn for information to the women who had shared his life: his wife, his mistress, and his sister, who is also a painter.

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* [http://www.randomhouse.com/features/katechristensen/greatman_rgg.html Random House reading guide to "The Great Man: A Novel"]