Headlong, Michael Frayn
Headlong, Michael Frayn
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Headlong

Author: Michael Frayn

Narrator: Steven Crossley

Unabridged: 12 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 08/26/2011

Categories: Fiction


Synopsis

Celebrated for his playwriting, British author Michael Frayn has also written screenplays and several acclaimed novels. Headlong, a Booker Prize finalist, combines a heavy dose of humor with a fascinating glimpse into the world of priceless art. When Martin Clay and his art historian wife are asked to appraise the private collection of a loutish man, it is Martin, not his wife, who believes he has discovered a lost masterpiece from Dutch painter Bruegel. Keeping his thoughts closely guarded, he embarks on a fast-paced quest to confirm his suspicions. In an effort to swindle the painting away from its owner, Martin heads down a trail of lies and scams that has hilarious and unexpected results. Frayn's novel is both an entertaining, slapstick romp through one man's personal odyssey and a fascinating glimpse into the world of art history. Narrator Steven Crossley captures each moment of discovery without missing a beat through all of Martin's bumbling and scheming.

About Michael Frayn

Michael Frayn is the author of ten novels, including the bestselling Headlong, which was a New York Times Editors' Choice selection and a Booker Prize finalist, and Spies, which received the Whitbread Novel Award. He has also written a memoir, My Father's Fortune, and fifteen plays, among them Noises Off and Copenhagen, which won three Tony Awards. He lives just south of London.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Antonio on September 08, 2021

This book was a very different, and somewhat overwhelming, reading experience. Taking into account Michael Frayn's expertise as an excellent playwright, this book is not short in proving his prowess in dialogue development. In it, we are introduced to Martin, who narrates his moral and ethical strugg......more

Goodreads review by Steve on April 27, 2010

I like boffin comeuppance humor – the kind where some bloviating egghead from the remotest groves of academe finds that his cluelessness about real life can come back to bite him. Martin, a second-rate professor of philosophy and a first-rate pedant, is the storyteller in this one. As you already kn......more

Goodreads review by Maria on April 09, 2012

Huge entertaining and informative, Michael Frayn's book about an art historian turned frantic detective is a delight from start to finish. I simply coudn't put it down and when it ended, I went straight to my local library to get out books about the Netherlands and old Dutch masters! The book will no......more

Goodreads review by Michelle on March 19, 2009

What a frustrating book... It *should* have been a very interesting book, good premise and good writer (from other books I've read of his prior to this one) but somehow between way too much academic research and one-dimensional characters it fell off the rails. I really, really wanted to like it, bu......more