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The Burnt Orange Heresy: A Noir Thriller of Art, Deception, and Deadly Ambition
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
ISBN13: 9781419740459
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Published: Mar 3 2020
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
The Burnt Orange Heresy--the 1970s crime classic--has lost none of its savage delights as it re-creates the making of a murderer, calmly and with exquisite tension, while satirizing the workings of the art world as the ultimate con. Stunning (The New Yorker).
Fast-talking, backstabbing, womanizing, and fiercely ambitious art critic James Figueras will do anything--blackmail, burglary, and beyond--to make a name for himself.
When an unscrupulous collector offers Figueras a career-making chance to interview Jacques Debierue, the greatest living--and most reclusive--artist, the critic must decide how far he will go to become the art-world celebrity he hungers to be.
Will Figueras stop at the opportunity to skim some cream for himself or push beyond morality's limits to a bigger payoff?
Crossing the art world with the underworld, Charles Willeford created a novel of dark hue and high aesthetic polish. And to add to the juicy 1970s story: Donald Sutherland and Mick Jagger starred in the movie version of this book.
A novel full of genuine fun that also manages to make a level statement about the art world and its hermetic credulities. --The New Yorker
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