About this title: In this humorous novel about the art world and its excesses, the appearance of a lost painting that may or may not be by Bruegel occasions a series of exercises in deceit, betrayal, and blind optimism when the man who comes across it at the home of a neighbor resolves that he must possess it at all costs.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Date Published: 09/1999
ISBN-13:9780805062854ISBN:0805062858
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 342 p. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Date Published: 09/1999
ISBN-13:9780805062854ISBN:0805062858
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 342 p. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Date Published: 09/1999
ISBN-13:9780805062854ISBN:0805062858
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 342 p. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Date Published: 09/1999
ISBN-13:9780805062854ISBN:0805062858
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 342 p. read more
Description: Near Fine. Trade Paperback. Picador, 2000. Near Fine Book. Lightly handled, with minimal wear to book. Aside from light toning, overall a clean and tight copy. Media Mail packed in protective bubble lined shipping bags, Priority in a Flat Rate Envelope. Shipped quickly. Prompt response to questions. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Picador
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780312267469ISBN:0312267460
Description: Very Good. GREAT BOOK! NO SPINE CREASES & MILD WEAR ON LAMINATED COVER. A FEW LIBRARY STAMPS, LIGHTLY AGED, NO MARKINGS IN TEXT. "Description: In this Booker Prize finalist, an unlikely con man wagers wife, wealth, and sanity in pursuit of an elusive Old Master painting. "Finely wrought and comical...a perfect introduction to a writer who likes to pull the rug out from under your feet while offering you the most seductive of smiles". --Michael Upchurch, "Seattle Times". " read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: FABER & FABER
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780571201471ISBN:0571201474
Description: Very Good. Spine creased. Minimal edge wear, a very nice copy. NOT an ex-library book; no publisher's remainder marks. Military (APO/FPO) orders are welcomed-Thank you for your service. read more
Description: Acceptable in Not Issued jacket. Solid copy. Spine is creased. Pages are tanned from age and have ink marks on the edges. Cover has shelfwear. read more
Literary Review, August 1999 "The pace of this novel is indeed headlong, so it never reads like an academic treatise--much more like a thriller." -- Alan Mahar
Times Literary Supplement, 08/20/1999 "As a thriller HEADLONG is an undoubted success (the tension in the denouement is brilliantly handled), but it is disappointing that what might have been an extremely interesting novel of ideas amounts to little more than a well-contrived page-turner." -- Hal Jensen
New York Times Book Review, 08/29/1999 "Frayn's dissection of marriage is a dark and persistent pleasure of HEADLONG, particularly his keen ear for the nuanced silences of domestic life." -- Randy Cohen
Los Angeles Times Book Review, 09/12/1999 "Though not exactly rollicking, Frayn isn't stingy...with the laughs, gleefully pricking holes in the overconfidence of academic art criticism. But just below the sugar powder you bite into his tough-minded essay on how history and individual human folly combine and conspire to manufacture art's 'message'." -- Judith Dunford
New York Times, 08/24/1999 "...Michael Frayn has constructed an ingenious plot around a missing Bruegel painting, and in doing so, created his own resonant portrait of human folly....[A] novel that turns out to be as entertaining as it is intelligent, as stimulating as it is funny." -- Michiko Kakutani
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