Bibliograph

The collector's apprentice, B.A. Shapiro

Type

Label

The collector's apprentice, B.A. Shapiro

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The collector's apprentice

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

1055044484

Responsibility statement

B.A. Shapiro

Summary

It's the summer of 1922, and nineteen-year-old Paulien Mertens finds herself in Paris--broke, disowned, and completely alone. Everyone in Belgium, including her own family, believes she stole millions in a sophisticated con game perpetrated by her then-fiance, George Everard. To protect herself from the law and the wrath of those who lost everything, she creates a new identity, a Frenchwoman named Vivienne Gregsby, and sets out to recover her father's art collection, prove her innocence--and exact revenge on George. 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 . . . and then Vivienne is arrested for Bradley's murder

Table Of Contents

Intro; Also by B. A. Shapiro; Title; Dedication; Contents; Part One; The Trial, 1928; 1: Paulien/Vivienne, 1922; 2: Vivienne, 1922; 3: Vivienne, 1922; 4: Paulien, 1920; 5: George/Benjamin, 1922; 6: Vivienne, 1922; 7: Vivienne, 1922; The Trial, 1928; 8: Vivienne, 1923; 9: Paulien, 1920; 10: George/Benjamin, 1923; 11: Vivienne, 1923; The Trial, 1928; 12: Vivienne, 1923; 13: George/Benjamin, 1923; 14: Paulien, 1920; Part Two; 15: Vivienne, 1923; 16: Vivienne, 1923; The Trial, 1928; 17: Vivienne, 1924; 18: George/Benjamin/Ashton, 1925; 19: Paulien, 1921-1922; 20: Vivienne, 192521: Vivienne, 192522: Vivienne, 1925; 23: Vivienne, 1925; The Trial, 1928; 24: Vivienne, 1926; 25: George/Ashton, 1926; 26: Vivienne, 1926; 27: Vivienne, 1926; 28: Paulien, 1922; Part Three; 29: Vivienne, 1926; 30: George/István, 1926; The Trial, 1928; 31: Vivienne and George/István, 1926; 32: George/István, 1926; 33: Vivienne, 1927; The Trial, 1928; 34: Vivienne, 1927; 35: George/István, 1927; 36: Vivienne, 1928; The Trial, 1928; 37: Vivienne, 1928; 38: George/István, 1928; The Trial, 1928; Part Four; 39: Vivienne, 1928; 40: George/István, 1929; 41: Vivienne, 1929; 42: George/István, 192943: Vivienne, 192944: Vivienne, 1929; 45: George/Tex, 1930; 46: Vivienne, 1930; Author's Note; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Copyright

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