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338 pp. Marges jaunies. Petites pliures sur la couverture.
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Earlier books by Paul Watkins such as Archangel and The Story of My Disappearance have been distinguished by a dogged refusal to accept the strictures of the genre. His agenda clearly involves subverting the conventions of the thriller--the final impression being of a literary novelist who can deliver the kind of increased pulse count found in such novels as Graham Greene's The Ministry of Fear. His new book, The Forger, arguably Watkins' most impressive so far, has a brilliantly organised sense of period (Paris 1939). David Halifax is a young American art student who finds himself in Europe as it totters on the brink of the Second World War. His personal life and career appear to be in stasis when he finds himself arrested for forgery, after a crooked art dealer tries to sell some of Halifax's paintings as Old Masters. However, his legal troubles soon appear unimportant when the Resistance press-gangs him into forging a series of great paintings in a scheme to keep them out of the clutches of the Nazis.
It is hard to know where to begin in praising the achievement of this taut and atmospheric piece, which combines truly original plot motifs with effortless and authoritative scene-setting. Halifax is a sympathetic and conflicted protagonist, while the unprepossessing art dealer Fleury has the vividness and colour of all Watkins' subsidiary characters. The first-person narrative manages to freight in several acute observations on the human condition, all the time maintaining the principal effect of accelerating tension. --Barry Forshaw
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"Watkins is without question one of the most gifted writers of his generation." -Tobias Wolff
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The Forger
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Condition: Fair. : En 'The Forger', Paul Watkins nos sumerge en el París de 1939, donde un joven de veintiún años se ve envuelto en una trama de falsificaciones y engaños. La novela explora temas de identidad, moralidad y supervivencia en un contexto histórico turbulento, ofreciendo una mirada fascinante a la vida en la capital francesa al borde de la guerra. Con una prosa evocadora y personajes complejos, Watkins construye una historia absorbente que invita a la reflexión sobre la naturaleza de la verdad y la autenticidad. EAN: 9780571203260 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Literatura y Ficción Título: The Forger Autor: Paul Watkins Editorial: Faber and Faber Ltd Idioma: en Páginas: 216 Formato: tapa blanda. Seller Inventory # Happ-2026-04-01-fcf1e210
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FORGER THE
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Broché. Condition: Bon état. in-12 Description :338 pp. Marges jaunies. Petites pliures sur la couverture. Langue : Anglais Nb de volumes : 1. Seller Inventory # 22365
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The Forger
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Paperback. Condition: Good. 338 pages. I reached Paris early in the summer of 1939, begins narrator David Halifax. Fo llowing in the footsteps of another generation of American expatriates, he has c ome to Paris for the sake of art (in his case, at the atelier of the temperament al and brilliant Alexander Pankratov). And like those earlier artists, he has ar rived at a particularly crucial moment, as France is simultaneously preparing fo r and ignoring the threat of war. David vows to ignore the vagaries of the quoti dian, however, immersing himself in his painting, down to the minutest detail, s o that it would stop being the whole picture and would break down into its indiv idual parts, which were different from what the parts had been in reality. Now t hey were fragments of a different thing, a thing all by itself. But the ghost of the canvas underneath, the reminder of it, would always bring you back into the world from which the painting had emerged, many incarnations ago. And of course , he is brought back to the far from being the muse of escape, his talent will b e the siren that draws him irrevocably into the harsh world of war. When Pankrat ov recruits David as part of the movement to replace priceless French-owned pain tings with forgeries before the Germans seize them, the young artist quickly bec omes absorbed by the very idea of forgery, by the necessity to adopt another ide ntity, to live and breathe and be the master he copies. But when their lives dep end on a final forgery--one so audacious that it will strike to the core of Hitl er's own artistic obsessions--philosophy gives way to breathless suspense, as th e pair journey through Normandy at the moment of the Allied invasion, desperatel y searching for a treasured Vermeer. The novel is so strong that its occasional. Seller Inventory # 2089v
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Condition: Used: Good. Occasion - Bon Etat - The forger (2000) - Grand Format. Seller Inventory # 3252953