The collectors apprentice book review free

When the eccentric and wealthy American art collector Edwin Bradley offers Vivienne the perfect job, she is soon caught up in the Parisian world of post-Impressionists and expatriates—including Gertrude Stein and Henri Matisse, with whom Vivienne becomes romantically entwined.

As she travels between Paris and Philadelphia, where Bradley is building an art museum, her life becomes even more complicated: George returns with unclear motives. Shapiro has made the historical art thriller her own. I like being a novelist the best. I began my writing career when I quit my high-pressure job after the birth of my second child. Smart mother.

My husband Dan and I raised our children in Boston and now divide our time between Boston and Florida. You can visit me at www. Paulien has been severely wronged and she now finds herself alone in Paris with no money, no friends and her family thinking she has stolen their priceless art collection.

To make matters worse it was her fiance who perpetrated the con that led to the loss of the art. Fortunately Vivienne is perfectly suited for a job in the art world as she was raised in a world surrounded by great art and he father made sure to educate her about art and artists. When she is offered a job by a wealthy American collector she jumps at the chance and is soon helping him and attending soirees with Gertrude Stein and Henri Matisse.

She and Matisse are soon much more than friends. Her life becomes a whirlwind of travel between Europe and Philadelphia helping to set up a new museum with her American, Edwin Bradley. But life is never simple, nor is the course of love.

Her ex fiance shows up again, but why? Before she can find out he ends up dead and she is the main suspect. Will she be able to finish her work with Bradley?

Will she get out from under the murder charges? Her interest in art was learned at the feet of her father, an avid collector himself. Vivienne is thrust into the art world of Paris and Philadelphia, traveling between the two cities as she helps Bradley build his unparalleled pool of work.

Woven throughout the story are the artists of the day: Picasso, Fitzgerald and Matisse with whom Vivienne has an affair , lending even more reality to this art history whodunit. When Bradley dies, his wife suspects murder and accuses Vivienne, who stands to inherit the mass of the Bradley collection.

Arrested and distraught, Vivienne stands against an angry widow and her suitor, who wants the collection for the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The Collector’s Apprentice by B. The Book Report Network. Skip to main content.

The Collector’s Apprentice. Reviewed by Roberta O’Hara on October 26,

The collectors apprentice book review free

 
One day when she was about eleven, her father came upon her softly weeping in front of The Music Lesson. Then her parents will see they were mistaken to believe that there never was a banker or that George is a crook and a con man of the worst sort. Already have an account? The ending was not what I was expecting but it was satisfying. Review Policy.