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"A British comedy in which academic Martin Clay is asked by a boorish country squire to assess his paintings. Clay spots what he suspects is a Bruegel and so begins a tale of lies and concealment as he schemes to separate the painting from its owner. By the author of Now You Know." --from WorldCat
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Classical in form, comic, cool and warm.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- warmbleak
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Michael Frayn
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 394
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber Ltd, Faber and Faber, Chivers Audio Books
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- English, Korean
- ISBN
- 9780312267469
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