Forgers #02: The Forger's Daughter

Forgers #02: The Forger's Daughter
Bradford Morrow
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 288pg
5 Aug 2021 US
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9781611854596
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When a scream shatters the summer night outside their country house, reformed literary forger Will and his wife Meghan find their daughter Maisie shaken and bloodied, holding a parcel her attacker demanded she present to her father. Inside is a literary rarity the likes of which few have ever handled, and a letter laying out impossible demands regarding its future. After twenty years of living life on the straight and narrow, Will finds himself drawn back to forgery, ensnared in a plot to counterfeit the rarest book in American literature: Edgar Allan Poe' s first publication, Tamerlane. Facing threats to his life and family, coerced by his former nemesis and fellow forger Henry Slader, Will must rely on the artistic skills of his other daughter Nicole to help create a flawless forgery of this 1827 publication regarded as the Holy Grail of American letters. Part mystery, part case study of the shadowy side of the book trade, and part homage to the writer who invented the detective tale, The Forger' s Daughter portrays the world of literary forgery as diabolically clever, genuinely dangerous and inescapable, it would seem, to those who have ever embraced it.

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Evocatively rendered and emotionally resonant, this literary crime novel is the real deal. Morrow' s gothic tale bears comparison with Poe' s own work. * Publishers Weekly (starred review) * An excellent suspense novel. . . . Bradford Morrow is, quite skillfully, paying homage to one of Agatha Christie' s most famous whodunits. Yet even then, he offers a few twists of his own and will keep all but the most astute mystery aficionado guessing about the truth until the end. * Washington Post on THE FORGERS * From its provocative opening line . . . Bradford Morrow' s latest novel takes on a knowing, noirish tone, like a crime movie by the Coen brothers. . . . The pleasure of reading The Forgers comes not only from trying to figure out what happened to Diehl but also in deciding, chapter by chapter, how much trust to grant the narrator, who is our only source. * Miami Herald on THE FORGERS * The Forgers is quintessential Bradford Morrow. Brilliantly written as a suspense novel, lethally enthralling to read, and filled with arcane, fascinating information - in this case, the rarefied world of high-level literary forgery. -- Joyce Carol Oates The Forgers is remarkable. Bradford Morrow is remarkable. The Real Thing, which is rare on this earthly plane. -- Michael Cunningham According to Bradford Morrow, literary forgers are coy about their craft, preferring to think of it as creative endeavour rather than crime. His hero, Will, is just such a man - or he used to be, until he got caught. Now, decades later, a villainous character from his past has materialised, demanding that Will create a copy of the rarest book in American literature, Edgar Allan Poe' s Tamerlane and Other Poems. The novel flits evocatively from upstate New York farmhouses to Manhattan auction houses, and there' s an aptly gothic tinge to the tense drama that ensues. -- Hephzibah Anderson * The Observer * Love is strange. It ennobles some people, makes fools of others, and occasionally leads to murder. In Bradford Morrow' s lovely literary mystery, THE FORGER' S DAUGHTER, the love of books causes all of the above. Will, once a master forger, has supposedly renounced that calling. But when his nemesis, Henry Slader, shows up with a stolen copy of "Tamerlane and Other Poems" (Edgar Allan Poe' s first book, and so rare, it' s known as a Black Tulip), he can' t resist making one last perfect copy. Unfortunately, Will' s color vision has been fading, making him dependent on his daughter, Nicole, to mix his inks. Although that makes her complicit in his crime, she is every bit her father' s daughter, and their teamwork on the elaborate artistic details that go into a literary forgery is itself a work of art. -- Marilyn Stasio * New York Times *
Bradford Morrow is the author of eight novels, including Trinity Fields, The Diviner' s Tale and The Prague Sonata, as well as a short story collection, The Uninnocent. He is the founding editor of Conjunctions and has contributed to many anthologies and journals. A Bard Center Fellow and professor of literature at Bard College, he lives in New York City.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781611854596
Published: 5 Aug 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 288

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