Bradford Morrow
Author of The Forgers
About the Author
Bradford Morrow is a professor of literature at Bard College and is founder and editor of the literary journal Conjunctions. He lives in New York.
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Series
Works by Bradford Morrow
Os Falsários 1 copy
A writer's aviary 1 copy
Gardener Of Heart 1 copy
CREWDSON 1999 GREGORY. 1 copy
Catalogue Nine 1 copy
Associated Works
A Convergence of Birds: Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by Joseph Cornell (2001) — Contributor — 193 copies
ParaSpheres: Extending Beyond the Spheres of Literary and Genre Fiction: Fabulist and New Wave Fabulist Stories (2006) — Contributor — 59 copies
Tamarisk, Volume V, Number 3/4, Summer/Fall 1983 — Contributor — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1951-04-08
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Places of residence
- Honduras
New York, New York, USA
Littleton, Colorado, USA
Cuneo, Italy
Ithaca, New York, USA
Santa Barbara, California, USA - Education
- University of Colorado
- Occupations
- novelist
editor
essayist
poet - Organizations
- Bard College
- Awards and honors
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1998)
- Agent
- Henry Dunow
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- Works
- 83
- Also by
- 13
- Members
- 1,947
- Popularity
- #13,218
- Rating
- 3.5
- Reviews
- 84
- ISBNs
- 203
- Languages
- 7
- Favorited
- 1
With an opening sentence like "They never found his hands", you can expect that you're in for a serious crime story. The Forgers does not deliver the gruesomeness that that opening suggests, but it is still a twisty murder mystery with a likeable protagonist.
The corpse in question is that of Adam Diehl, brother-in-law of notorious forger Will. Will has entertained suspicions that Adam might also have been a forger, but has kept those suspicions to himself. However the murder brings his own past back under the microscope, and he finds he needs to defend himself from his wife's suspicions, without exposing Adam. Just when he thinks that he has succeeded, he starts getting threatening letters that could only have been produced by a master forger, one at least as good as himself.
Will and his wife Meghan retreat to an Irish village while Will tries to go straight and leave his tarnished reputation in the rare book world behind him. Things are not so simple though, and trouble soon follows.
I liked the unusual milieu that this novel is set in, and the mounting tension that Will feels as his past closes in on him while he struggles to make a life beyond forgery and faking.… (more)