The Rescue Artist: A True Story Of Art, Thieves, And The Hunt For A Missing Masterpiece: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece: An Edgar Award Winner - Rilegato

Dolnick, Edward

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ISBN 10: 0060531177 ISBN 13: 9780060531171

Casa editrice: HarperCollins, 2005

Riassunto

Traces the theft of Edvard Munch's The Scream from Oslo's National Gallery in 1994, recounting the efforts of art detective Charley Hill to recover the painting in an investigation that took him from the lavish estates of eccentric aristocrats to the art underworld. By the author of Down the Great Unknown. 50,000 first printing.

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“The Rescue Artist is a masterpiece. Engrossing, entertaining, often surreally hilarious.” (―Mary Roach, author of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers on The Rescue Artist)

“The narrative’s frequent detours to other crimes and engaging escapades...elevate this work above last year’s similar The Irish Game.” (―Publishers Weekly)

“A big shout-out to Edward Dolnick for The Rescue Artist.“ (―Geoffrey Jennings, Rainy Day Books, Fairway KS)

“There has never been a better book on art crime.” (Milton Esterow, ArtNews)

“An entertaining account of the eternal struggle between high art and low cunning.” (Time magazine)

“Riveting...fascinating.” (Los Angeles Times)

“There has never been a better book on art crime.” (ArtNews)

“Dolnick...writes with a crisp, breezy style that runs with the speed of thieves purloining stolen canvases.” (Donald Harington, Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

L'autore:

Edward Dolnick is the author of Down the Great Unknown, The Forger’s Spell, and the Edgar Award-winning The Rescue Artist. A former chief science writer at the Boston Globe, he lives with his wife near Washington, D.C.

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• Editore: HarperCollins
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0060531177
• ISBN 13: 9780060531171
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 270