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The Art Forger: A Novel
B. A. Shapiro
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Description for The Art Forger: A Novel
Paperback. 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 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. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 143 x 26. Weight in Grams: 392.
Don't miss B. A. Shapiro's new novel, Metropolis, available now! “[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 ... Read morerenowned 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. Show Less
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About B. A. Shapiro
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 ... Read moreat Tufts University and creative writing at Northeastern University. She and her husband, Dan, divide their time between Boston and Florida.This author is represented by the Hachette Speakers Bureau. Show Less
Reviews for The Art Forger: A Novel
Boston Globe's Best Crime Books of 2012 “The Art Forger is the real thing.” —USAToday.com “[A] nimble mystery.”—The New York Times Book Review "Gripping." —O, The Oprah Magazine “[A] highly entertaining literary thriller about fine art and foolish choices.” —Parade "Precise and exciting . . . Readers seeking an engaging novel about ... Read moreartists and art scandals will find "The Art Forger" rewarding for its skillful balance of brisk plotting, significant emotional depth and a multi-layered narration rich with a sense of moral consequence." —The Washington Post "If Bridget Jones's Diary and The Da Vinci Code had a love child, this would be it." —Elle (Reader's Panel Reviewer) “[Shapiro] has such interesting things to say about authenticity—in both art and love—that her novel becomes not just emotionally involving but addictive.” —Entertainment Weekly "Ingeniously and skillfully plotted." —The Huffington Post “Warning: Don’t dig into this book if you have something to do . . . An addictive thriller.” —Redbook “An engaging tale about art, cupidity, and a Faustian bargain . . . Shapiro convincingly depicts the rarefied art world that lionizes a chosen few and ignores the talented, scrabbling outsiders on the fringe. Shapiro is adept, too, at showing the white-hot heat of an artist engaged in creating a painting. She knows art history, painting techniques, and how forgers have managed through the centuries to dupe buyers into paying for fakes . . . Inventive and entertaining.” —The Boston Globe “Smart, sexy . . . spellbinding.” —Redbookmag.com “An intelligent, cleverly plotted page-turner.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune “Engaging storytelling. Intelligent entertainment.” —Kirkus Reviews Boston Globe's Best Crime Books of 2012 “The Art Forger is the real thing.” —USAToday.com “[A] nimble mystery.”—The New York Times Book Review "Gripping." —O, The Oprah Magazine “[A] highly entertaining literary thriller about fine art and foolish choices.” —Parade "Precise and exciting . . . Readers seeking an engaging novel about artists and art scandals will find "The Art Forger" rewarding for its skillful balance of brisk plotting, significant emotional depth and a multi-layered narration rich with a sense of moral consequence." —The Washington Post "If Bridget Jones's Diary and The Da Vinci Code had a love child, this would be it." —Elle (Reader's Panel Reviewer) “[Shapiro] has such interesting things to say about authenticity—in both art and love—that her novel becomes not just emotionally involving but addictive.” —Entertainment Weekly "Ingeniously and skillfully plotted." —The Huffington Post “Warning: Don’t dig into this book if you have something to do . . . An addictive thriller.” —Redbook “An engaging tale about art, cupidity, and a Faustian bargain . . . Shapiro convincingly depicts the rarefied art world that lionizes a chosen few and ignores the talented, scrabbling outsiders on the fringe. Shapiro is adept, too, at showing the white-hot heat of an artist engaged in creating a painting. She knows art history, painting techniques, and how forgers have managed through the centuries to dupe buyers into paying for fakes . . . Inventive and entertaining.” —The Boston Globe “Smart, sexy . . . spellbinding.” —Redbookmag.com “An intelligent, cleverly plotted page-turner.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune “Engaging storytelling. Intelligent entertainment.” —Kirkus Reviews Boston Globe's Best Crime Books of 2012 2012 NetGalley Pick Kobo's Best Fiction Ebooks of 2012 “The Art Forger is the real thing.” —USAToday.com “[A] nimble mystery.”—The New York Times Book Review "Gripping." —O, The Oprah Magazine “[A] highly entertaining literary thriller about fine art and foolish choices.” —Parade "Precise and exciting . . . Readers seeking an engaging novel about artists and art scandals will find "The Art Forger" rewarding for its skillful balance of brisk plotting, significant emotional depth and a multi-layered narration rich with a sense of moral consequence." —The Washington Post "If Bridget Jones's Diary and The Da Vinci Code had a love child, this would be it." —Elle (Reader's Panel Reviewer) “[Shapiro] has such interesting things to say about authenticity—in both art and love—that her novel becomes not just emotionally involving but addictive.” —Entertainment Weekly "Ingeniously and skillfully plotted." —The Huffington Post “Warning: Don’t dig into this book if you have something to do . . . An addictive thriller.” —Redbook “An engaging tale about art, cupidity, and a Faustian bargain . . . Shapiro convincingly depicts the rarefied art world that lionizes a chosen few and ignores the talented, scrabbling outsiders on the fringe. Shapiro is adept, too, at showing the white-hot heat of an artist engaged in creating a painting. She knows art history, painting techniques, and how forgers have managed through the centuries to dupe buyers into paying for fakes . . . Inventive and entertaining.” —The Boston Globe “Smart, sexy . . . spellbinding.” —Redbookmag.com “An intelligent, cleverly plotted page-turner.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune “Engaging storytelling. Intelligent entertainment.” —Kirkus Reviews Show Less
