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The Jump Artist

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By Deborah Paris, Shaker Heights, Ohio

June 17, 2009, 5:06 a.m. ET

I'm reading The Jump Artist by Austin Ratner.聽 A unique piece of historical fiction about an untold story of a famous American photographer, Phillipe Halsman - it is the story of a personal metamorphosis from despair to success set against the backdrop of the beginnings of Nazism in Austria.聽 I picked it up because I've read the author's short stories (Missouri Review fiction prize etc.) and then couldn't put it down.聽 It is unique in the realm of historical fiction 鈥� beautifully written and meticulously structured so that the personal psychology of the protagonist聽 parallels external real historical events and a forbidding natural landscape.聽 Discover a new talent.聽 I did.