Masterclass
by Morris L. West
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A fast-paced tale of intrigue and murder set in the cutthroat international art trade.Tags
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An interesting tale of murder, high finance and intrigue around the art world. Very well written and a good tight plot.
gave it a 'great' rating, not sure if that was 4 or 5 stars
It is about an Archivist!
Een spannend boek over Max Mather die werkt aan de archieven van een oude Italiaanse handelsfamilie. Hij ontdekt in een van de kasboeken dat er in de 16 eeuw een bestelling is gedaan bij Rafael van Urbino voor het maken van twee portretten. Die zijn ook geleverd, maar waar zijn ze nu. Ze hangen niet in het paleis van de familie. In WO II blijken er ook nog kopieën van die schilderijen gemaakt te zijn, maar ook die zijn niet in het paleis. Na het overlijden van zijn opdrachtgeefster ontdekt Max de schilderijen in een dichtgenaaide envelop in het archief. Dan moet hij een plan bedenken om de schilderijen weer terug "in de (kunst)wereld" te brengen en er zelf ook nog iets aan over te houden. Intussen gaat zijn vriendin die hij in Italië show more had terug naar New York waar zij een kunstgalerie begint met werken van een vermoorde kunstenares. Max krijgt te horen wie haar vermoord heeft, maar ook dat heeft allemaal haken en ogen. Kortom, een spannend verhaal over de kunstwereld, waarin het deze keer niet alleen om de vraag wie het meeste geld heeft, draait. show less
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Morris West was born in 1916 in St Kilda, Melbourne. At the age of thirteen, he left home to study with the Christian Brothers Order in Sydney, but left in 1939 after 12 years, before taking his final vows. He was fluent in Italian and French, and taught modern languages and mathematics in New South Wales and Tasmania in his twenties. He spent show more four years code-breaking as a cipher officer in the AIF, and then for a decade he concentrated on producing and writing radio plays. West's first novel was published in 1945 and he began writing full time in the 1950s. He went to Italy were he went undercover with Father Mario Borelli, who was working with street urchins, and wrote The Children of the Sun, published in 1957. In 1959, following six months as Vatican correspondent for The Daily Mail, he published The Devil's Advocate, which won the William Heinemann Award of the Royal Society, the National Brotherhood Award of the National Council of Christians and Jews as well as the James Tait Black Memorial Award. Shoes of a Fisherman, the first of The Papal Series, which included The Clowns of God, Lazarus and Eminence, won the Best-Sellers Paperback of the Year Award in 1965. West helped to found the Australian Society of Authors, was chairman of the National Book Council, chairman of the National Library of Australia and a fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science. He was made member of the order of Australia (MBE) in 1985 and officer of the order of Australia (AO) in 1997. Apart from writing novels, West also wrote screenplays, radio dramas, plays and was also an artist. Translated into twenty-seven languages, his works have sold more that sixty million copies. He also wrote an account on his spiritual journey, A View From the Ridge, published at the end of 1996. Morris West died while working at his desk on 9th October 1999. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Goldmann (9687)
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- Canonical title*
- Das Meisterwerk
- Original title
- Masterclass
- Original publication date
- 1988
- People/Characters
- Maxwell Mather
- Dedication*
- Für meine jüngsten Enkelinnen Siobhan und Natascha Louise
- First words*
- Mit fünfunddreissig hielt sich Maxwell Mather für einen glücklichen Menschen.
- Last words*
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Woraufhin die Amseln aus dem Kastanienbaum aufstiegen und in einer wilden Wolke den Bergen zustrebten, während die letzten neun Schläge des morgendlichen Angelusläutens erschallten und im Schweigen der toskanischen Dämmerung verklangen.
- Original language
- English
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- Reviews
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- Languages
- 7 — English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 34
- ASINs
- 14
