{
"item_title" : "The Art Forger",
"item_author" : [" B. A. Shapiro "],
"item_description" : "[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 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. ",
"item_img_path" : "https://covers1.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/1/61/620/316/1616203161_b.jpg",
"price_data" : {
"retail_price" : "18.99", "online_price" : "18.99", "our_price" : "18.99", "club_price" : "18.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "18.99"
}
}
The Art Forger
Overview
"[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 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.Customers Also Bought

Details
- ISBN-13: 9781616203160
- ISBN-10: 1616203161
- Publisher: Algonquin Books
- Publish Date: May 2013
- Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.4 x 0.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.65 pounds
- Page Count: 384
Related Categories