The KOH Book Club meeting for March will be held on Tuesday, March 19th at 7 p.m. This month Soni Meyer will be reviewing the book, "The Art Forger" by B.A. Shapiro. Newcomers always welcome! Contact Jolie for more information. See below for a short summary of this book:
On March 18, 1990, thirteen works of art worth today 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.
Claire makes her living reproducing
famous works of art for a popular online retailer. Desperate to improve
her situation, she lets herself be lured into a Faustian bargain with
Aiden Markel, a powerful gallery owner. She agrees to forge a
painting—one of the Degas masterpieces stolen from the Gardner Museum—in
exchange for a one-woman show in his renowned gallery. But when the
long-missing Degas painting—the one that had been hanging for one
hundred years at the Gardner—is delivered to Claire’s studio, she begins
to suspect that it may itself be a forgery.
Claire’s search for
the truth about the painting’s origins leads her into a labyrinth of
deceit where secrets hidden since the late nineteenth century may be the
only evidence that can now save her life. B. A. Shapiro’s razor-sharp
writing and rich plot twists make The Art Forger an absorbing
literary thriller that treats us to three centuries of forgers, art
thieves, and obsessive collectors. it’s a dazzling novel about
seeing—and not seeing—the secrets that lie beneath the canvas.
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