The improbability of love

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Author

Hannah Rothschild

Publication

2015 - , New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

101,750 words, Guess

Page Count

407 pages

Identifiers

Open LibraryOL27190845M
Internet Archiveimprobabilityofl0000roth_w1n1
Internet Archiveimprobabilityofl0000hann
ISBN-101101874147
ISBN-139781101874141

and 2 more

Library of Congress Control Number2014047753
OCLC Control Number898228390

Classifications

DDC823/.92
LCCPR6118.O8755 I47 2015

Description

"Annie McMorrow, 31 and not recovered from the end of her long-term relationship, is an assistant to film producer Carlo Spinetti and then to his chilling wife Rebecca Winkleman Spinetti whose father started Winkleman Fine Art in Curzon St. Annie has spent her meagre savings on a dusty painting from a junk shop to give to her new, unsuitable, boyfriend who never shows up for his birthday dinner. The painting now hers, talks, but only to us. Shrewd, spoiled, charming, world weary and cynical, he comments perceptively on Annie, and the modern world and tells tales about his previous owners: Louis XV, Voltaire, Catherine the Great among others. The story unfolds through this voice and many others--unexpected, entertaining, and strangely authentic. Annie will have her apartment ransacked and be pursued by dealers, buyers and an auctioneer in an attempt to get back the painting. With The Improbability of Love, Rothschild has spun a dazzling tale--both irreverant and entertainng--of a many-layered, devious world where, in the end, love triumphs"--