- Fiction, Painters, Art forgers, World War, 1939-1945
"It is 1939, and young American art student David Halifax has ventured to Paris - just before the outbreak of the Second World War. An art dealer puts some of his paintings on the market, attempting to pass them off as the work of an Old Master, but when the ruse is uncovered, it is Halifax who is arrested, and charged with forgery.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
- rawmeticulous
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About the book
- Author
- Paul Watkins
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 336
- Publisher
- Picador USA, Picador, Faber and Faber
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780571201945
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“I REACHED PARIS EARLY in the summer of 1939, at the age of twenty-one.”
American writer who also uses the pseudonym Sam Eastland.
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