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Almost twentyfive years after the infamous art heist at the isabella stewart gardner museumstill the largest unsolved art theft in historyone of the stolen degas paintings is delivered to the boston studio of a young artist. She makes a faustian bargain with a powerful gallery owner to forge a degas painting stolen in the isabella stewart gardner museum art heist in exchange for a one woman art. I wanted to hang out with her, walk lions down boston streets with her, buy famous paintings, and do all kinds of outrageous things that. It includes plenty of mystery, secrets, and romanceall of which should appeal to readers of good quality fiction. Shapiro is the new york times bestselling author of the muralist and the art forger, which won the new england book award for fiction and the boston authors society award for fiction, among other honors. Shapiro, a creative writing professor at bostons northeastern university and author of the art forger, had the persistence to keep. Get 50% off this audiobook at the audiobooksnow online audio book store and download or stream. Dec 30, 2012 shapiros nimble mystery the art forger revisits this unsolved theft when, more than two decades on, one of gardners paintings seems to resurface. This entire story is phenomenal and ingeniously plotted. O, the oprah magazine almost twentyfive years after the infamous art heist at the isabella stewart gardner museumstill the largest unsolved art theft in historyone of the stolen degas paintings is delivered to.
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