{"product_id":"the-art-forger-a-novel","title":"The Art Forger A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eClaire 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eClaire'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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"B. A. Shapiro","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44222515740732,"sku":"9781616201326","price":1377.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/7706\/7836\/files\/the-art-forger-a-novel-9781616201326.jpg?v=1776769672","url":"https:\/\/libertybooksstore.myshopify.com\/products\/the-art-forger-a-novel","provider":"LibertyBooksStore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}