![]() ![]() ![]() The scamming, fakery and double-crossing of Carey's novel is entertaining enough. Michael has nothing but contempt for art critics, but he quotes with approval something Clement Greenberg supposedly said: "The problem with art is the people who buy it." Another artist in the novel charges that art dealers "are the most larcenous people on Earth." What's a struggling artist to do, then, but play their game? Which Michael learns to do under Marlene's masterly tutelage. He will also discover that she's a thief.īut in the art world of Carey's novel, theft is everywhere. He soon discovers she's married to the son of a celebrated early 20th-century artist, Jacques Leibovitz, and is involved in the authentication of that master's works. Trying to revive his career, Michael has launched a new series of paintings when he encounters a sophisticated, enigmatic young woman named Marlene. ![]()
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