01555cam a2200313 4500 243826216 TxAuBib 20151012120000.0 120309s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2012009037 9781616201326 $23.95 1616201320 $23.95 9781616203160 pbk. $14.95 1616203161 pbk. $14.95 (OCoLC)776528039 TxAuBib Shapiro, Barbara A., 1951- The art forger : a novel / by B.A. Shapiro. 1st ed. Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2012. 360 p. ; 22 cm. Boston painter Claire Roth has survived financially by painting reproductions, so when influential gallery owner Aiden Markel arrives with a bizarre proposal--her own show if she will forge a copy of a Degas, one of the pictures stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum--she says yes. As she works, Claire and Aiden become lovers, but she doesn't tell him about her discovery that the stolen Degas is itself a copy. This knowledge is Claire's lifeline when the finished forgery is discovered, Aiden and then Claire are both arrested, and only she can save them. 20151012. Gardner, Isabella Stewart, 1840-1924 Fiction. Degas, Edgar 1834-1917 Fiction. Art Forgeries Fiction. Art Fiction. Art forgers Fiction.