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Algonquin Books
November 2012
On Sale: October 23, 2012
368 pages
ISBN: 1616201320
EAN: 9781616201326
Kindle: B008NEZVPY
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Fiction Family Life | Historical
On March 18, 1990, thirteen works of art worth today over
$500 million were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner
Museum in Boston. It remains the largest unsolved art heist
in history, and Claire Roth, a struggling young artist, is
about to discover that there’s more to this crime than meets
the eye. Claire makes her living reproducing famous works of art for
a popular online retailer. Desperate to improve her
situation, she lets herself be lured into a Faustian bargain
with Aiden Markel, a powerful gallery owner. She agrees to
forge a painting—one of the Degas masterpieces stolen from
the Gardner Museum—in exchange for a one-woman show in his
renowned gallery. But when the long-missing Degas
painting—the one that had been hanging for one hundred years
at the Gardner—is delivered to Claire’s studio, she begins
to suspect that it may itself be a forgery. Claire’s search for the truth about the painting’s origins
leads her into a labyrinth of deceit where secrets hidden
since the late nineteenth century may be the only evidence
that can now save her life. B. A. Shapiro’s razor-sharp
writing and rich plot twists make The Art Forger an
absorbing literary thriller that treats us to three
centuries of forgers, art thieves, and obsessive collectors.
it’s a dazzling novel about seeing—and not seeing—the
secrets that lie beneath the canvas.
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