{"id":4684,"date":"2013-03-13T12:30:02","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T17:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danversreads.wordpress.com\/?p=4684"},"modified":"2013-03-13T12:30:02","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T17:30:02","slug":"the-art-forger-barbara-shapiro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=4684","title":{"rendered":"The Art Forger &#8211; Barbara Shapiro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/theartforger.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4685\" alt=\"theartforger\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/theartforger.jpg\" width=\"255\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/theartforger.jpg 255w, https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/theartforger-182x300.jpg 182w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><\/a><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reviewed by Fran<\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary:<\/strong><br \/>\nMaking 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&#8217;s studio, she begins to suspect that it may itself be a forgery.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review:<\/strong><br \/>\nMystery\/suspense\/historical fiction all combined to make for a very interesting read. Especially enjoyable were the references to Boston landmarks, background history of the Gardner Museum, and insight into the persona of Isabella Stewart Gardner herself.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/evergreen.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/3200826?locg=1\">Check availability for The Art Forger<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Fran Summary: 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&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-1dy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}