Forgery
Subtitle: Sabina Murray
Edition: 1st ed
Publisher: Grove Press; Distributed by Publishers Group West
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780802118448
Subjects: Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Fiction; Americans -- Greece -- Fiction; Greece -- History -- 1950-1967 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: In the summer of 1963, American Rupert Brigg travels to Greece to collect classical pieces for his Uncle William's art collection. Rupert's first discovery, however, is that Athens is a shadowy place that hides a tangle of fork-tongued diplomacy and duplicitous women, a city of replicas and composites that, like a hall of mirrors, calls to question what is real and what is false. Journeying to the secluded island of Aspros, among a circle of artists and aristocrats each with their own secrets, Rupert finds the very pieces he's searching for, but can he escape the tragedy that ended his brief marriage?