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050 00 $aCT275.R61155$bA3 2005
082 00 $a978.2/25403/092$aB$222
100 1 $aRips, Michael,$d1954-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00028659
245 14 $aThe face of a naked lady :$ban Omaha family mystery /$cMichael Rips.
260 $aBoston :$bHoughton Mifflin Co.,$c2005.
300 $a192 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 1 $a"Nic Rips was a man his son had always known as a conservative midwesterner, dedicated, affable, bland to the point of invisibility. Upon his father's death, however, Michael Rips returned to his Omaha family home to discover a hidden portfolio of paintings - all done by his father, all of a naked black woman. So begins Michael Rips's second work of memoir, part detective story, part disquisition on the mysteries of identity, part journey into an America readers will scarcely recognize." "Rips is a storyteller with a keen eye for the absurd, even in a place like Omaha, which, like his father, is not what it first appears. His solid Republican father, he discovers, was raised in one of Omaha's most famous brothels, insisted on hiring a collection of social misfits to work in his eyeglass factory, and once showed up in the principal's office of his son's high school in pajamas. As Rips searches for the woman of the paintings, he meets, among others, an African American detective who swears by the clairvoyant powers of a Mind Machine, a homeless man with five million dollars in the bank, an underwear auctioneer, and a flying trapeze artist on her last sublime ride. Ultimately, Rips finds the woman, a father he never knew, and a profound sense that all around us the miraculous permeates the everyday."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aRips, Michael,$d1954-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00028659
600 10 $aRips, Nic.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2004035485
650 0 $aFathers and sons$zNebraska$zOmaha$vBiography.
650 0 $aJews$zNebraska$zOmaha$vBiography.
651 0 $aOmaha (Neb.)$vBiography.
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hm051/2004054052.html
852 00 $bglx$hCT275.R61155$iA3 2005