Headlong A Novel

Name: Headlong A Novel
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ISBN: 9780312267469

ISBN-10: 0312267460

ISBN-13: 9780312267469

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Authors: Michael Frayn

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An unlikely con man wagers wife, wealth, and sanity in pursuit of an elusive Old Master. 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. In Headlong, Michael Frayn, "the master of what is seriously…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 9/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Michael Frayn is the author of the award-winning "Copenhagen" & twelve other plays, including "Noises Off". The most recent of his nine novels is "Headlong", a New York Times Editor's Choice & Booker Prize finalist. He lives in London.