B.A. Shapiro author event
When:
Friday, Oct 19, 2018 7:00p -
8:30p
Friday, Oct 19, 2018 7:00p -
8:30p
Where:
Wellesley Books
82 Central Street
Wellesley, MA 02482
Admission:
$5.00
Categories:
Lectures & Conferences
Event website:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ba-shapiro-presents-the-collectors-apprentice-tickets-49140423329
Please note that this is a ticketed event. Click the link to the left to buy tickets. Your $5 ticket can be used as a coupon off the price of "The Collector's Apprentice." You must buy your book from Wellesley Books in order to meet Barbara at the event and have her sign your copy. You can also buy tickets in-store or by phone (781-431-1160) to avoid online processing fees.
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ABOUT THE COLLECTOR'S APPRENTICE
From the bestselling author of THE ART FORGER and THE MURALIST
“Dazzling and seductive, a tour de force, The Collector’s Apprentice is an exhilarating tale of shifting identities, desire, and intrigue set between 1920s Paris and Philadelphia.”—Dawn Tripp, bestselling author of Georgia
It’s the summer of 1922, and nineteen-year-old Paulien Mertens finds herself in Paris—broke, disowned, and completely alone. Everyone in Belgium, including her own family, believes she stole millions in a sophisticated con game perpetrated by her then-fiancé, George Everard. To protect herself from the law and the wrath of those who lost everything, she creates a new identity, a Frenchwoman named Vivienne Gregsby, and sets out to recover her father’s art collection, prove her innocence—and exact revenge on George.
When the eccentric and wealthy American art collector Edwin Bradley offers Vivienne the perfect job, she is soon caught up in the Parisian world of post-Impressionists and expatriates—including Gertrude Stein and Henri Matisse, with whom Vivienne becomes romantically entwined. As she travels between Paris and Philadelphia, where Bradley is building an art museum, her life becomes even more complicated: George returns with unclear motives . . . and then Vivienne is arrested for Bradley’s murder.
B. A. Shapiro has made the historical art thriller her own. In The Collector’s Apprentice, she gives us an unforgettable tale about the lengths to which people will go for their obsession, whether it be art, money, love, or vengeance.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
B.A. Shapiro is the author of the award-winning New York Times bestseller The Art Forger and the bestseller The Muralist. She has taught sociology at Tufts University and creative writing at Northeastern University and lives in Boston with her husband, Dan, and their dog, Sagan. Her website is www.bashapirobooks.com.
