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Algonquin
November 2015
On Sale: November 3, 2015
Featuring: Alizée Benoit
352 pages
ISBN: 1616203579
EAN: 9781616203573
Kindle: B00U6YR07Q
Hardcover / e-Book
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Mystery
When Alizée Benoit, a young American painter working for
the Works Progress Administration
(WPA), vanishes in New York City in 1940, no one knows
what happened to her. Not her
Jewish family living in German-occupied France. Not her
arts patron and political
compatriot, Eleanor Roosevelt. Not her close-knit group
of friends and fellow WPA
painters, including Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, and Lee
Krasner. And, some seventy years
later, not her great-niece, Danielle Abrams, who, while
working at Christie’s auction
house, uncovers enigmatic paintings hidden behind works
by those now famous Abstract
Expressionist artists. Do they hold answers to the
questions surrounding her missing aunt? Entwining the lives of both historical and fictional
characters, and moving between the
past and the present, The Muralist plunges readers into
the divisiveness of prewar
politics and the largely forgotten plight of European
refugees refused entrance to the
United States. It captures both the inner workings of New
York’s art scene and the
beginnings of the vibrant and quintessentially American
school of Abstract Expressionism. As she did in her bestselling novel The Art Forger, B. A.
Shapiro tells a gripping story
while exploring provocative themes. In Alizée and
Danielle she has created two
unforgettable women, artists both, who compel us to ask:
What happens when luminous talent
collides with unstoppable historical forces? Does great
art have the power to change the
world?
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