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The Burnt Orange Heresy

by Charles Willeford

2021-02-04 07:24:50

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The classic neo-noir novel acclaimed as Willeford’s best, soon to be a major film   Fast-talking, backstabbing, womanizing, and fiercely ambitious art critic James Figueras will do anything—blackmail, burglary, and beyond—to ma... Read more
The classic neo-noir novel acclaimed as Willeford’s best, soon to be a major film
 
Fast-talking, backstabbing, womanizing, and fiercely ambitious art critic James Figueras will do anything—blackmail, burglary, and beyond—to make a name for himself. When an unscrupulous collector offers Figueras a career-making chance to interview Jacques Debierue, the greatest living—and most reclusive—artist, the critic must decide how far he will go to become the art-world celebrity he hungers to be. Will Figueras stop at the opportunity to skim some cream for himself or push beyond morality’s limits to a bigger payoff?
 
Crossing the art world with the underworld, Willeford creates a novel of dark hue and high aesthetic polish. The Burnt Orange Heresy—the 1970s crime classic now back in print—has lost none of its savage delights as it re-creates the making of a murderer, calmly and with exquisite tension, while satirizing the workings of the art world as the ultimate con.
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File size8.2 X 5.45 X 0.75 in
Print pages176
PublisherHarry N. Abrams
Publication date April 7, 2020
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781094163970
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Charles Willeford
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Charles Willeford was a professional horse trainer, boxer, radio announcer and painter. He was also a highly decorated tank commander (Silver Star, Bronze Star, Purple Heart, Luxembourg Croix de Guerr...

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