The Art Forger, B. A. Shapiro
The Art Forger, B. A. Shapiro
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The Art Forger

Author: B. A. Shapiro

Narrator: Xe Sands

Unabridged: 10 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/23/2012


Synopsis

On March 18, 1990, thirteen works of art today worth 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.
 
 Making a living reproducing famous artworks for a popular online retailer and desperate to improve her situation, Claire is lured into a Faustian bargain with Aiden Markel, a powerful gallery owner. She agrees to forge a painting—a Degas masterpiece stolen from the Gardner Museum—in exchange for a one-woman show in his renowned gallery. But when that very same long-missing Degas painting is delivered to Claire’s studio, she begins to suspect that it may itself be a forgery.
 
 Her desperate search for the truth leads Claire into a labyrinth of deceit where secrets hidden since the late nineteenth century may be the only evidence that can now save her life.

About B. A. Shapiro

B. A. Shapiro is the author of the award-winning New York Times bestseller The Art Forger and the bestseller The Muralist. She has taught sociology at Tufts University and creative writing at Northeastern University and lives in Boston with her husband, Dan, and their dog, Sagan.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Harry

I'll make a confession right off the bat: I didn't give The Art Forger 4 stars because I was blown away by the prose, scene, setting, or characterization. Had those been up to snuff I'd have given it an easy 5. There are some flat characters, relies somewhat on stereo typical thinking about artists......more

Goodreads review by Katie

My predominant emotion while reading this book was irritation and I became much more interested in why it was irritating me so much than I was in the novel itself. I suppose principally because I thought it was going to be much more literary – a novel that creates the feeling that the characters are......more

Goodreads review by Delee

I will start by saying that my experience reading The ART FORGER was like I sat down to watch the movie Heat, and for some reason the movie Quick Change ended up in my DVD player by accident. Okay maybe I am exaggerating a bit, but it was a much lighter read than I had expected... I kept looking at TH......more

Rating 4.85 Having recently enjoyed "Metropolis", Shapiro's latest, the topic and concept made this an obvious choice. Meticulously plotted, well researched and paced, we're brought into the world of art, forgery and theft. We first meet Claire Roth, an MFA who like many artists struggles to gain noto......more