The Art Forger: A Novel

by B A Shapiro

Don't miss B. A. Shapiro's new novel, Metropolis, available now! “[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.

• ISBN10: 1616203161
• ISBN13: 9781616203160
• Publish Date: 21 May 2013 (first published 23 October 2012)
• Publish Status: Active
• Out of Print: 6 April 2021
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Algonquin Books
• Format: Paperback (UK Trade)
• Pages: 384
• Language: English

Reviews

[Kait ✨]

The art aspect was interesting, particularly the bits about Degas (I loved [b:The Painted Girls|16138688|The Painted Girls|Cathy Marie Buchanan|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1352484200s/16138688.jpg|18151238] last year and this was a nice continuation of what I learned in that book). But there was something missing here for me. I didn’t like the romance; I thought it was overdone and frankly, unbelievable. And everything was wrapped up much too neatly at the end. I enjoyed reading this but I think it will be forgettable—just one of those “ho-hum” books that is squarely in the middle of neither good nor bad.

[dpfaef]

A good read, interesting stuff about how you go about forging an old master.

While it did not have me on the edge of my seat, I enjoyed the book.