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Restoration
When journalist Jack Charbonnet meets Rhys Goudeau, a beautiful art restorer, he is soon caught up in intrigue more fascinating than any news story. She is determined to find a lost painting by the great, controversial Southern artist Levette Asmore, who killed himself soon after being forced to whitewash a scandalous masterpiece. As they try to keep ahead of unscrupulou...more
Paperback, 320 pages
Published
March 9th 2004
by Anchor
(first published February 18th 2003)
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This book would have rated much higher for me if it had been historically sound and truly a historically based book of fiction. There were some plot twists that did not quite set right with me. I was also not completely taken by either of the main characters (Jack or Rhys.) Deception is deception. The only truly interesting thing is it's setting in New Orleans. Oh well. Next.
Planned as a fun summer read and it was just that. New Orleans flavor, lots of fun with regional southern painters, but an ending that didn't make sense. Great characterizations, though.
Chock full of detail about Southern art (though often given through an exposition dump of monologue), but the "racial tension" thread woven throughout feels heavy on white guilt and weak on substance.
It wasn't a bad read, but for some reason I felt like I had read this same story before.
Pretty darn good, but My Juliet is a better book by this guy.
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