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The relic master : a novel / Christopher Buckley.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Buckley Relic
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Buckley, Christopher, 1952-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Antique dealers--Fiction.
- Antique dealers.
- Holy Shroud--Fiction.
- Holy Shroud.
- Relics--Fiction.
- Relics.
- Genre:
- Historical fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 380 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Simon & Schuster, 2015.
- Summary:
- 1517. Dismas is a relic hunter who procures "authentic" religious relics for wealthy and influential clients, and is as honest as any relic dealer can be. When Dismas and his artist friend Dürer conspire to manufacture a shroud to sell to the unsuspecting noble, Dürer's reckless pride exposes Cardinal Albrecht's newly acquired shroud as a fake, the Cardinal puts Dismas and Dürer in the custody of four loutish mercenaries and sends them all to steal Christ's burial cloth-- the Shroud of Chambéry-- Europe's most celebrated relic.
- Notes:
- Maps on lining papers.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-380).
- ISBN:
- 9781501125751 : HRD
- 1501125753 : HRD
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