· In THE COLLECTOR’S APPRENTICE, the history of the Barnes becomes fodder for a murder mystery. Shapiro morphs real-life Barnes into eccentric collector Edwin Bradley, a chemist by trade in a loveless marriage who has a passion for art. The parallels are uncanny and purposeful. Shapiro creates a gripping thriller with a backdrop of enticing reality. “The Collector’s Apprentice is a work of fiction loosely inspired by the lives of the art collector Albert Barnes and his assistant, Violette de Mazia, as well as the history of the Barnes Foundation, which he founded and they both nurtured,” Shapiro writes in an author’s note. From this raw material, she has invented a tantalizing story that draws on extensive research into not only the lives of Barnes and de . B.A. Shapiro is the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of nine novels, including Metropolis (May ), The Collector’s Apprentice, The Muralist and The Art Forger, which won the New England Book Award for Fiction, among other honors. Her books have been selected as Community Reads throughout the country and have been translated into over a dozen languages.
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B. A. Shapiro has made the historical art thriller her own. In The Collector's Apprentice, she gives us an unforgettable tale about the lengths to which people will go for their obsession, whether it be art, money, love, or vengeance. B.A. Shapiro is the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of nine novels, including Metropolis (May ), The Collector’s Apprentice, The Muralist and The Art Forger, which won the New England Book Award for Fiction, among other honors. Her books have been selected as Community Reads throughout the country and have been translated into over a dozen languages. Shapiro is a master at melding historical and fictional characters to bring the past alive on the page, and in The Collector’s Apprentice she has forged an exquisite, multilayered story that maps the cogent and singular fire of a young woman’s ambition and the risks she will take for the sake of art.”.
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