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Art Forger / B.A. Shapiro.
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 knowlege 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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- ISBN: 9781616201326
- Physical Description: 360 pages. ; 22 cm
- Edition: .
- Publisher: Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, [2012]
- Copyright: ©2012
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| Language Note: | English |
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| Subject: | Gardner, Isabella Stewart, 1840-1924 > Fiction. Degas, Edgar, 1834-1917 > Fiction. Art > Forgeries > Fiction. Art forgers > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Detective and mystery fiction. Thrillers (Fiction) |
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The Art Forger : A Novel
"[A] highly entertaining literary thriller about fine art and foolish choices." -- Parade "[A] nimble mystery." --The New York Times Book Review "Gripping." --O, The Oprah Magazine Almost twenty-five years after the infamous art heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum--still the largest unsolved art theft in history--one of the stolen Degas paintings is delivered to the Boston studio of a young artist. Claire Roth has entered into a Faustian bargain with a powerful gallery owner by agreeing to forge the Degas in exchange for a one-woman show in his renowned gallery. But as she begins her work, she starts to suspect that this long-missing masterpiece--the very one that had been hanging at the Gardner for one hundred years--may itself be a forgery. The Art Forger is a thrilling novel about seeing--and not seeing--the secrets that lie beneath the canvas.
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