02706cam a2200313 4500 529641092 TxAuBib 20211108120000.0 ||||||s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781616201807 1616201800 B00AFKISKO Amazon 7fb92f3f-cba1-4d25-86ff-529f0154fd96 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1128953 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Shapiro, B. A. The Art Forger [Libby] : A Novel. Algonquin Books, 2012. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 698kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Historical Fiction. HTML:<p>On March 18, 1990, thirteen works of art worth today over $500 million were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. It remains the largest unsolved art heist in history, and Claire Roth, a struggling young artist, is about to discover that there's more to this crime than meets the eye.</p> <p>Claire makes her living reproducing famous works of art for a popular online retailer. Desperate to improve her situation, she lets herself be lured into a Faustian bargain with Aiden Markel, a powerful gallery owner. She agrees to forge a painting—one of the Degas masterpieces stolen from the Gardner Museum—in exchange for a one-woman show in his renowned gallery. But when the long-missing Degas painting—the one that had been hanging for one hundred years at the Gardner—is delivered to Claire's studio, she begins to suspect that it may itself be a forgery.</p> <p>Claire's search for the truth about the painting's origins leads her into a labyrinth of deceit where secrets hidden since the late nineteenth century may be the only evidence that can now save her life. B. A. Shapiro's razor-sharp writing and rich plot twists make <i>The Art Forger</i> an absorbing literary thriller that treats us to three centuries of forgers, art thieves, and obsessive collectors. it's a dazzling novel about seeing—and not seeing—the secrets that lie beneath the canvas.</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=7FB92F3F-CBA1-4D25-86FF-529F0154FD96&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=7FB92F3F-CBA1-4D25-86FF-529F0154FD96&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=7FB92F3F-CBA1-4D25-86FF-529F0154FD96&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)