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Bend Bella Cyclists Book Club
September 8, 2022 @ 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
There is nothing better than curling up with a good book. Plan to join us on Thursday, September 8th at 5:30 PM for this month’s meeting, where we will meet, eat, drink and discuss this months selection, ‘The Art Forger‘ by B.A. Shapiro.
On March 18, 1990, thirteen works of art, today worth over $500 million, were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. It remains the largest unsolved art heist in history, and Claire Roth, a struggling young artist, is about to discover that there’s more to this crime than meets the eye.
Making a living reproducing famous artworks for a popular online retailer and desperate to improve her situation, Claire is lured into a Faustian bargain with Aiden Markel, a powerful gallery owner. She agrees to forge a painting – a Degas masterpiece stolen from the Gardner Museum – in exchange for a one-woman show in his renowned gallery. But when that very same long-missing Degas painting is delivered to Claire’s studio, she begins to suspect that it may itself be a forgery.
Her desperate search for the truth leads Claire into a labyrinth of deceit where secrets hidden since the late 19th century may be the only evidence that can now save her life.