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Collector's choice.
- Title
- Collector's choice.
- Author
- Marks, Peter
- Publication
- New York] Random House [1972]
- ©1972
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | 3846.954.326 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 211 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "To those on the outside looking in, the New York art scene is the Beautiful People and the Big Rich buying and selling beautiful pictures. But as this novel reveals, a group portrait of the members of this invred club might mmore appropriately by hung in a rogues' gallery. It is a world of glitter and of ego, where a Renoir is a ticket to the best parties, where a tugged earlobe at an auction can buy a half-million dollars' worth of painted canvas, where an ancient bronze may have been made only last year, where beauty is truth, and truth is putting your money where your mouth is. Possession is nine-tenths of the law, but along the gallery--auction house--museum axis, it's ten-tenths of who you are. Into this arena of malice, Old Masters, and black-tie openings steps Andor, a man of shadowy antecedents and encyclopedic knowledge of art. He had an extraordinary plan, and with his nerve, flair, and cunning it could not fail to work. This would be one gamble in which luck could have no part." -- paraphrased from dust jacket
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Detective and mystery fiction.
- Fiction
- Fiction.
- Romans.
- ISBN
- 0394474260
- 9780394474267
- LCCN
- 79037064
- OCLC
- ocm00277966
- 277966
- SCSB-151960
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library