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Burnt Orange Heresy por Charles Willeford
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Burnt Orange Heresy (1971 original; edición 1999)

por Charles Willeford (Autor)

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Fiction. Literature. Mystery. HTML:The classic neo-noir novel acclaimed as Willeford's best, soon to be a major film

Fast-talking, backstabbing, womanizing, and fiercely ambitious art critic James Figueras will do anythingâ??blackmail, burglary, and beyondâ??to make a name for himself. When an unscrupulous collector offers Figueras a career-making chance to interview Jacques Debierue, the greatest livingâ??and most reclusiveâ??artist, the critic must decide how far he will go to become the art-world celebrity he hungers to be. Will Figueras stop at the opportunity to skim some cream for himself or push beyond morality's limits to a bigger payoff?

Crossing the art world with the underworld, Willeford creates a novel of dark hue and high aesthetic polish. The Burnt Orange Heresyâ??the 1970s crime classic now back in printâ??has lost none of its savage delights as it re-creates the making of a murderer, calmly and with exquisite tension, while satirizing the workings of the art world as the ul
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Título:Burnt Orange Heresy
Autores:Charles Willeford (Autor)
Información:Carroll & Graf (1999), 192 pages
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Classic. Read in the 80s. Gift from Elizabeth I believe. ( )
  apende | Jul 12, 2022 |
An art critic gets a once-in-a-lifetime chance to interview the world's most famous and reclusive artist, but the catch is that he has to steal one of the man's paintings for an obsessive collector.

This novel reminded me a lot of Pick-up, the other Willeford novel I've read; the loner narrator who's kind of a loser (one an artist/alcoholic, the other an art critic/failed artist), involved with a woman who kind of drives him crazy, and things get out of control, leading to murder. This version of the story stood out for me a little more, mainly due to the character of the artist Debierue, who is world-famous despite no one ever having seen one of his paintings. This was intriguing for the first half or so of the book, but the misogyny displayed in both these Willeford novels has worn a little thin for me, and I won't be reading another. ( )
  sturlington | Jul 21, 2015 |
Not one of my favorite Willeford books. The art world background just seems like so much satire that I had a hard time as I read through the first few chapters believing Willeford wrote it - but I guess the man could write pretty much whatever he wanted to. You'll probably figure out the key part of the story long before the "secret" is revealed, and after that point, the book is a real downer - unlike a lot of his other books, which are enjoyable downers. ( )
  datrappert | Sep 18, 2009 |
Originally published in 1971, this story of art, ambition and crime by one of the first writers of Florida noir moves along smoothly and delivers a great plot. Willeford's knowledge of art informs the story throughout and his characters are perfectly formed, especially the art critic, James Figueras. ( )
  Hagelstein | Jun 19, 2008 |
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Fiction. Literature. Mystery. HTML:The classic neo-noir novel acclaimed as Willeford's best, soon to be a major film

Fast-talking, backstabbing, womanizing, and fiercely ambitious art critic James Figueras will do anythingâ??blackmail, burglary, and beyondâ??to make a name for himself. When an unscrupulous collector offers Figueras a career-making chance to interview Jacques Debierue, the greatest livingâ??and most reclusiveâ??artist, the critic must decide how far he will go to become the art-world celebrity he hungers to be. Will Figueras stop at the opportunity to skim some cream for himself or push beyond morality's limits to a bigger payoff?

Crossing the art world with the underworld, Willeford creates a novel of dark hue and high aesthetic polish. The Burnt Orange Heresyâ??the 1970s crime classic now back in printâ??has lost none of its savage delights as it re-creates the making of a murderer, calmly and with exquisite tension, while satirizing the workings of the art world as the ul

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