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The art forger : a novel / Barbara Shapiro.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Shapiro Art
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shapiro, Barbara A., 1951-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gardner, Isabella Stewart, 1840-1924--Fiction.
- Gardner, Isabella Stewart.
- Degas, Edgar, 1834-1917--Fiction.
- Degas, Edgar.
- Art--Forgeries--Fiction.
- Art.
- Art forgers--Fiction.
- Art forgers.
- Genre:
- Mystery fiction.
- Suspense fiction.
- Authors' autographs.
- Physical Description:
- 360 p. ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books, 2012.
- 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.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Additonal copy signed by the author, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Richard S. Lee.
- ISBN:
- 9781616201326
- 1616201320
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