The Rescue Artist

出版者:HarperCollins

作者:Edward Dolnick

页数:270

出版时间:2005-06-28

价格:USD 25.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780060531171

具体描述

In the predawn gloom of a February day in 1994, two thieves entered the National Gallery in Oslo. They snatched one of the world's most famous paintings, Edvard Munch's <em>The Scream</em>, and fled with their $72 million trophy. The thieves made sure the world was watching: the Winter Olympics, in Lillehammer, began that same morning. Baffled and humiliated, the Norwegian police called on the world's greatest art detective, a half-English, half-American undercover cop named Charley Hill.</p>

In this rollicking narrative, Edward Dolnick takes us inside the art underworld. The trail leads high and low, and the cast ranges from titled aristocrats to thick-necked thugs. Lord Bath, resplendent in ponytail and velvet jacket, presides over a 9,000-acre estate. David Duddin, a 300-pound fence who once tried to sell a stolen Rembrandt, spins exuberant tales of his misdeeds. We meet Munch, too, a haunted misfit who spends his evenings drinking in the Black Piglet Café and his nights feverishly trying to capture in paint the visions in his head. The most compelling character of all is Charley Hill, an ex-soldier, a would-be priest, and a complicated mix of brilliance, foolhardiness, and charm. The hunt for <em>The Scream</em> will either cap his career and rescue one of the world's best-known paintings or end in a fiasco that will dog him forever.</p>

作者简介

爱德华·多尔尼克曾为《波士顿环球报》、《大西洋月刊》、《时代杂志》等报纸杂志撰稿，并有《进入伟大的未知世界》以及《睡椅上的疯狂》等多部著作。

读后感

几年前在人大听一堂大课，课上了一半，几个修理工模样的人鱼贯而入。 他们很有礼貌地对教授说道：“你们继续，我们只是把前几天坏掉投影仪给拆下来修理。” 于是，教授讲他的，我们听我们的，修理工拆他们的。 后来他们拆完了，仍旧很有礼貌地向教授道歉，因为拆卸过程似乎打...  

1994年2月12日一大早，两名男子在50秒内，用一架梯子就偷走了在挪威国家美术馆展出的、价值七千二百万美元的<呐喊>，爱德华·蒙克最出名的作品，容易得难以相信，甚至爬梯子时还搞笑地掉下来过一次。 本书围绕这次失窃，讲述了许多有关艺术名，尤其是名画失窃的历史、情景、内...  

这不是旅行，不是巡展，是艺术品在黑夜、后车厢、储物柜、流氓、骗子、奸商、河流中的冒险，是继毒品买卖、军火走私之后的第三大国际黑市贸易。 博物馆，尤其藏有珍品的那些，总是戒备森严吗？他们用红外线感应？角落里都是隐蔽的探头？或者启动了某个装置整个博物馆都会自动封...  

几年前在人大听一堂大课，课上了一半，几个修理工模样的人鱼贯而入。 他们很有礼貌地对教授说道：“你们继续，我们只是把前几天坏掉投影仪给拆下来修理。” 于是，教授讲他的，我们听我们的，修理工拆他们的。 后来他们拆完了，仍旧很有礼貌地向教授道歉，因为拆卸过程似乎打...  

有趣的一本书，在光合作用发现的。 捉襟见肘的办案经费，一个一脸憨厚的卧底警察，一群其实是粗人而非怪盗基德的艺术品盗窃犯……纪实文学，却比故事好看。