Framed

by Tonino Benacquista, Adriana Hunter (Translator)

Overview

Murderous black comedy laced with biting satire of the Paris art world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781908524140
Publisher:	Bitter Lemon Press, Ltd
Publication date:	08/31/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	475 KB

About the Author

Benacquista, born in France of Italian immigrants, dropped out of film studies to finance his writing career. After being a museum night watchman, a train guard and a parasite on the Paris gallery opening and cocktail circuit, he is now a successful author and screenwriter. Her work includes Catherine Millet's explicit autobiography, 'The sexual life of Catherine M' and Beigbeder's attack novel on advertising, '£9.99'.She also translated 'Death in the Dordogne' by Louis Sanders recently favourably reviewed by the NYT.

Editorial Reviews

French author Benacquista (Holy Smoke) delivers another darkly comic crime novel. His eccentric narrator, Antoine, supports his love of playing billiards with a day job hanging paintings at a Paris art gallery. When Antoine interrupts an intruder in the midst of vandalizing an abstract work by an obscure painter, Etienne Morand, the man topples a heavy sculpture on Antoine, crushing his right hand. The loss of his hand further warps Antoine's already idiosyncratic personality and leads him on a quest for his assailant that involves several corpses and suspicions that there may not have been a real artist named Morand. The author's familiarity with the European art world lends plausibility to the fraud plot, while the unusual main character makes a refreshing change from the stock hero of so much genre fiction. (July) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

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