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Headlong : a novel / Michael Frayn.

By:

Frayn, Michael

Contributor(s):

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Henry Hold and Co. c1999.Edition: 1st American edDescription: 344 p. ; 21 cmISBN:

9780312267469

Subject(s):

Art Collectors and collecting -- Fiction

Genre/Form:

Black humor

DDC classification:

FIC FRA

Online resources:

Awards:

A Booker Prize Finalist

Summary: Invited to dinner by the boorish local landowner, Martin Clay, an easily distracted philosopher, and his art-historian wife are asked to assess three dusty paintings blocking the draught from the chimney. But hiding beneath the soot is nothing less-Martin believes-than a lost work by Bruegel. So begins a hilarious trail of lies and concealments, desperate schemes and soaring hopes as Martin, betting all that he owns and much that he doesn't, embarks on a quest to prove his hunch, win his wife over, and separate the painting from its owner.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Fiction / Ficción	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	FIC FRA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Expurgado/No disponible	Fiction		054190

Invited to dinner by the boorish local landowner, Martin Clay, an easily distracted philosopher, and his art-historian wife are asked to assess three dusty paintings blocking the draught from the chimney. But hiding beneath the soot is nothing less-Martin believes-than a lost work by Bruegel. So begins a hilarious trail of lies and concealments, desperate schemes and soaring hopes as Martin, betting all that he owns and much that he doesn't, embarks on a quest to prove his hunch, win his wife over, and separate the painting from its owner.