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The art forger : a novel
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The art forger : a novel

Author: Barbara A Shapiro
Publisher: Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2012.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : English : 1st ed
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  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Mystery fiction
Suspense fiction
Detective and mystery stories
Suspense fiction, American
Fiction
Named Person: Isabella Stewart Gardner; Edgar Degas
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Barbara A Shapiro
ISBN: 9781616201326 1616201320
OCLC Number: 776528039
Description: 360 p. ; 22 cm
Responsibility: by B.A. Shapiro.

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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.
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