High Art

by Rubem Fonseca

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060155728
• ISBN13: 9780060155728
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 345 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A masterpiece

Violent and realistic, it's a true classic. If you liked the movie, you must get the book, it's much denser and better elaborated.

i saw the movie first - exposed, an hbo release.

This is r.f.'s first book. the high art refers to the knife fighting skills acquired by the protaganist. High Art is similiar to the forbidden book (us) Hit Man, in describing in detail methods used to kill . it is a forbiden subject = all the more fascinating.

A master-piece of one of the greatest brazilian writers

If you want to know the "high art" of Rubem Fonseca, you should read this novel first. The master of short stories is in your best shape telling the story of the lawyer/ detective Mandrake that's initially hired to find out a VCR tape and finishes to get involved with a serial killer that mark the "P" letter in the face of your victims and with a international criminal organization with headquarters in the city of Rio de Janeiro