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The Forgery of Venus: A Novel
by Michael Gruber
from William Morrow

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Fascinating
  This is my second Michael Gruber novel, after "The Book of Air and Shadows." Both books are first rate. Literally, it's a book about art fraud, but it's also about reality and illusion, sanity and insanity. I couldn't put it down. I love to get lost in a book like that. Many great twists and turns.

• A Novel with Sprezzatura
  In recent years there have been alot of novels about art and even more about drug induced ststes. The Forgery of Venus has both in spades. Read it anyway. If Art History was a favorite course and you can enjoy an afternoon at the Metropolitan, then you will appreciate this book. Michael Gruber seems to touch on every important theme of concern to artists: originality, authenticity, diversions, greed and more. He is equally knowledgeable about technical things- at times I felt I was getting lessons in how... more info

• A Painter's Read
  The Forgery of Venus is a carefully and elegantly constructed novel that does a brilliant job of revealing a painter's life. The book pulls you in very early on to characters that feel like people you know, particularly if you originate from the northeast. Gruber's prose are sumptuous without being the slightest bit tedious. He moves in an out of plot twists with ease without losing the reader.
  If you are an artist, particularly a painter, this book is a kind of pornography of the craft. Gruber's... more info

• Art forgery thriller rivets the reader
  Gruber's literary thrillers transport the reader into detailed realms entirely apart from ordinary life - worlds of passionate scholarship, pivotal moments in history, monumental avarice - where the stakes are as sophisticated as they are deadly.
  From shamanism to Shakespeare - and now the art world - Gruber's meticulous research and considerable writing skills bring his intricate and rather fantastic plots to life.
  The narrator of this sixth book (like the narrator of 2007's, "The Book of Air and... more info

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