by Michael Frayn · Faber Faber Inc · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780571204168
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«Headlong» is the comic novel by Michael Frayn, published by Faber Faber Inc in paperback (394 pages, in English).
Philosopher Martin Clay and his wife, an art historian, are invited by a rough landowner to value some forgotten paintings. Clay thinks he recognizes a possible lost Bruegel beneath the soot, and risks everything to prove his theory and acquire the work, getting entangled in a comedy of lies, concealments, and excessive ambitions.
The novel was a finalist for the 1999 Booker Prize and nominated for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Whitbread Award.
For readers of literary fiction who enjoy humor and stories about art, intrigue, and hidden treasures.
Michael Frayn, FRSL is an English playwright and novelist. He is best known as the author of the farce Noises Off and the dramas Copenhagen, and Democracy.
