The Art Forger

by B.A. Shapiro and Barbara A. Shapiro

Book 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1616201320
• ISBN13: 9781616201326
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Algonquin Books
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.8" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

The art of forging

This book has received many mixed reviews. I am a novice painter and I really enjoyed hearing about the forging techniques and the history of forging great works of art. I also enjoyed the historical interactions between Isabelle and Degas. I could have done without Claire's romantic intanglements but enjoyed hearing about her creative processes. The mystery was a good addition and added tension.