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jameseckman's review
3.0
A slow, melancholy crime novel. There's detective work done, but it mostly goes to waste and its a corrupt world out there, especially true for the business of high end art sales (not fiction!). The artist and art forger Sloane pushes through to the end and finds a bit of peace and happiness at the end. The use of an artist, and not a detective was an interesting mashup, I think a more conventional approach would have been too dark and boring.
I'm not that familiar with most of the painters of the period mentioned, I did spend some time looking at the women artists mentioned by Harvey in the acknowledgements, some work was nice but it was mostly abstracts which I don't care for.
An interesting read once for me, but I don't think I can read this sort of thing too often.
I'm not that familiar with most of the painters of the period mentioned, I did spend some time looking at the women artists mentioned by Harvey in the acknowledgements, some work was nice but it was mostly abstracts which I don't care for.
An interesting read once for me, but I don't think I can read this sort of thing too often.
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