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Call Number: Fiction
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction	4-week checkout	On Shelf

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Unlikable English Art Lover submitted by sdunav on August 28, 2017, 2:51pm A suspense novel that I helped pick out for my book club - I thought the cover blurbs sounded really interesting.

And parts of the book *were* really interesting - a pompous academic finds a painting he believes is a lost Bruegel in a country house in England, and goes on to try to authenticate it and get it away from its current owner (who may or may not legally own it).

Problem was, I hated the main character/narrator. He was not only pompous, he was unfaithful (in all but the letter of the law), he was greedy, ugh. I just didn't see enough redeeming features in him to make me want to keep reading about him, although he was very realistically portrayed, I have to say. But I finished the book because I had to for my book club.

I did learn a lot about Bruegel and iconography and 16th c. history in the Netherlands.