The Art Forger

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" The Art Forger is the real thing." — usAToday.c
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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.
" [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
"[Shapiro] knows art history, painting techniques, and how forgers have... Tovább

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" The Art Forger is the real thing." — usAToday.c
I
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.
" [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
"[Shapiro] 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 (a Boston Globe Best Crime Book of 2012)
"[A] NIMBLE MYSTERY." "SMART, SEXY . . . SPELLBINDING."
The New York Times Book Review —Redbookmag.com
If Bridget Jones's Diary and The Da Vinci Code had a love child, this would be it."
—Elle
"AN INTELLIGENT, CLEVERLY PLOTTED PAGE-TURNER."
—Minneapolis Star Tribune
"[A] GRIPPING NOVEL." "Ingeniously and skillfully plotted."
—O: The Oprah Magazine —The Huffington Post
ENGAGING STORYTELLING. Intelligent entertainment." —Kirkus Reviews
"PRECISE AND EXCITING A multi-layered narration rich with a sense of moral consequence." —The Washington Post Vissza