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Rescue Artist : A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece by Edward Dolnick (2006, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-100060531185
ISBN-139780060531188
eBay Product ID (ePID)50345845
Product Key Features
Book TitleRescue Artist : a True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece
Number of Pages336 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2006
TopicHistory / Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945), Individual Artists / General, Social History
IllustratorYes
GenreArt, History
AuthorEdward Dolnick
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight10.1 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition22
TitleLeadingThe
ReviewsDolnick...writes with a crisp, breezy style that runs with the speed of thieves purloining stolen canvases., "The Rescue Artist is a masterpiece. Engrossing, entertaining, often surreally hilarious." -- --Mary Roach, author of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers on The Rescue Artist "The narrative's frequent detours to other crimes and engaging escapades...elevate this work above last year's similar The Irish Game." -- --Publishers Weekly "A big shout-out to Edward Dolnick for The Rescue Artist." -- --Geoffrey Jennings, Rainy Day Books, Fairway KS "There has never been a better book on art crime." -- Milton Esterow, ArtNews "An entertaining account of the eternal struggle between high art and low cunning." -- Time magazine "Riveting...fascinating." -- Los Angeles Times "There has never been a better book on art crime." -- ArtNews "Dolnick...writes with a crisp, breezy style that runs with the speed of thieves purloining stolen canvases." -- Donald Harington, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The narrative's frequent detours to other crimes and engaging escapades...elevate this work above last year's similar The Irish Game.
Dewey Decimal364.16/2/09481
SynopsisIn the predawn hours of a gloomy February day in 1994, two thieves entered the National Gallery in Oslo and made off with one of the world's most famous paintings, Edvard Munch's Scream . It was a brazen crime committed while the whole world was watching the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. Baffled and humiliated, the Norwegian police turned to the one man they believed could help: a half English, half American undercover cop named Charley Hill, the world's greatest art detective. The Rescue Artist is a rollicking narrative that carries readers deep inside the art underworld -- and introduces them to a large and colorful cast of titled aristocrats, intrepid investigators, and thick-necked thugs. But most compelling of all is Charley Hill himself, a complicated mix of brilliance, foolhardiness, and charm whose hunt for a purloined treasure would either cap an illustrious career or be the fiasco that would haunt him forever., In the predawn hours of a gloomy February day in 1994, two thieves entered the National Gallery in Oslo and made off with one of the world's most famous paintings, Edvard Munch's Scream. It was a brazen crime committed while the whole world was watching the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. Baffled and humiliated, the Norwegian police turned to the one man they believed could help: a half English, half American undercover cop named Charley Hill, the world's greatest art detective. The Rescue Artist is a rollicking narrative that carries readers deep inside the art underworld -- and introduces them to a large and colorful cast of titled aristocrats, intrepid investigators, and thick-necked thugs. But most compelling of all is Charley Hill himself, a complicated mix of brilliance, foolhardiness, and charm whose hunt for a purloined treasure would either cap an illustrious career or be the fiasco that would haunt him forever., This suspense-filled book tells the true story of the 1994 theft of Edvard Munch's masterpiece "The Scream" from the National Gallery in Oslo, Norway, and the brilliant detective who gets it back. Includes a 16-page b&w photo insert.
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