The collector's apprentice : a novel / B.A. Shapiro.
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-fiance, 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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781616203580
- ISBN: 1616203587
- Physical Description: 343 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2018.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Sneads Ferry Branch Library | FIC SHAPIRO (Text) | 36015001285465 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Swansboro Branch Library | FIC SHAPIRO (Text) | 36015000894226 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Annie Hubbard McEachern Public Library | F SHAPIRO (Text) | 34510000603751 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Cleveland County Main Library | F SHAPIRO (Text) | 22281500138841 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Gilbert Patterson Memorial Library | F SHAPIRO (Text) | 34510000603744 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Goldsboro Library | F SHA (Text) | 900000000797275 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Henderson Main Branch | SHA (Text) | 33258008871050 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Lenoir Library | F SHAPIRO B.A. (Text) | 50669012470838 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Lexington Public Library | F SHA (Text) | 25908007290989 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Mocksville | F SHAPIRO (Text) | 39872001916318 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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