The Burnt Orange Heresy - A Novel
Author(s): Charles Willeford
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.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
- : Overlook Press, The
- : 0.181437
- : 01 March 2020
- : .65 Inches X 5.55 Inches X 8.25 Inches
- : books
Special Fields
- : Charles Willeford
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 176