The art forger a novel
Boston painter Claire Roth has survived financially by painting reproductions, so when influential gallery owner Aiden Markel arrives with a bizarre proposal--her own show if she will forge a copy of a Degas, one of the pictures stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum--she says yes. As she w...
| Main Author: | Shapiro, Barbara A., 1951- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Chapel Hill, N.C. :
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill,
2012.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Online Access: |
Go to Downloadable eBook Here. |
| Summary: |
Boston painter Claire Roth has survived financially by painting reproductions, so when influential gallery owner Aiden Markel arrives with a bizarre proposal--her own show if she will forge a copy of a Degas, one of the pictures stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum--she says yes. As she works, Claire and Aiden become lovers, but she doesn't tell him about her discovery that the stolen Degas is itself a copy. This knowledge is Claire's lifeline when the finished forgery is discovered, Aiden and then Claire are both arrested, and only she can save them. |
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| Physical Description: |
360 p. ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9781616203160 1616203161 9781616201326 1616201320 |
| Author Notes: |
B. A. Shapiro is the bestselling author of The Collector's Apprentice , The Muralist , and The Art Forger , which won the New England Book Award for Fiction and the Boston Authors Society Award for Fiction, among other honors. Her books have been selected as community reads in numerous cities and translated throughout the world. Before becoming a novelist, she taught sociology at Tufts University and creative writing at Northeastern University. She and her husband, Dan, divide their time between Boston and Florida. |