The Burnt Orange Heresy (movie Tie-in Edition) (2020)

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Charles Willeford

04/07/2020
Overview
<b>A driven art critic’s plan to steal a painting leads to murder in this classic neo-noir novel by the author of the Hoke Moseley series.</b><br><br>Fast-talking, backstabbing, womanizing, and fiercely ambitious art critic James Figueras will do anything—blackmail, burglary, and beyond—to make a name for himself. When an unscrupulous collector offers Figueras a career-making chance to interview Jacques Debierue, the greatest living—and most reclusive—artist, the critic must decide how far he will go to become the art-world celebrity he hungers to be. Will Figueras stop at the opportunity to skim some cream for himself or push beyond morality’s limits to a bigger payoff?<br><br>Crossing the art world with the underworld, Willeford creates a novel of dark hue and high aesthetic polish<i>. The Burnt Orange Heresy</i>—the 1970s crime classic now back in print—has lost none of its savage delights as it re-creates the making of a murderer, calmly and with exquisite tension, while satirizing the workings of the art world as the ultimate con.<br><br><b>Now a major motion picture starring Donald Sutherland and Mick Jagger</b><br><br><b>Praise for <i>The Burnt Orange Heresy</i></b><br><br><b>“Stunning . . . A novel full of genuine fun that also manages to make a level statement about the art world and its hermetic credulities.” —<i>New Yorker</i></b>
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