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Book 2008

Forgery

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Publisher
Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Language
English
Published
2008
  • Art
  • Fiction
  • Americans
  • Collectors and collecting
  • History
  • Fiction, historical
  • Greece, fiction
  • Marriage, fiction

In the summer of 1963, American Rupert Brigg travels to Greece to collect classical pieces for his Uncle William's art collection. Rupert's first discovery, however, is that Athens is a shadowy place that hides a tangle of fork-tongued diplomacy and duplicitous women, a city of replicas and composites that, like a hall of mirrors, calls to question what is real and what is false. Journeying to the secluded island of Aspros, among a circle of artists and aristocrats each with their own secrets, Rupert finds the very pieces he's searching for, but can he escape the tragedy that ended his brief marriage?