false <![CDATA[Pictures at an Exhibition]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255656100m/4702617.jpg 4702617 3 <p>Set in a Paris darkened by World War II, Sara Houghteling&#8217;s sensuous and bracing debut novel tells the story of a son&#8217;s quest to recover his family&#8217;s lost masterpieces, looted by the Nazis during the occupation.<br><br>Born to an art dealer and his pianist wife, Max Berenzon is forbidden from entering the family&#8217;s business for reasons he cannot understand. He reluctantly attends medical school, reserving his true passion for his father&#8217;s beautiful gallery assistant, Rose. When Paris falls to the Nazis, the Berenzons survive in hiding, returning in 1944 to find that their priceless collection has vanished. Gone are the Matisses, the Picassos, and a Manet of mysterious importance. In Max&#8217;s obsessive hunt to recover his father&#8217;s paintings, he navigates a torn city of corrupt art dealers, black marketers, Résistants, and collaborators, uncovering not only paintings but the stories of Rose&#8217;s heroism, the tragic disappearance of his closest friend, and the truth behind a devastating family secret.<br><br>Written with luminous historical detail, and as haunting as the paintings that are reprinted on its pages, Houghteling's novel conjures a mesmerizing world of art and artists, the melancholy of the end of an era, and a timeless story of fathers and sons.</p> 4766940 20 1 2009 Pictures at an Exhibition total:173|5:21|4:63|3:58|2:27|1:4| 173 589 380 72 5 2 false false Sun Apr 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 07 22:46:12 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 12 23:12:49 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Wed Apr 15 12:43:56 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 12:43:56 -0700 2009 In this historical novel, Houghteling explores Fascism and humanism, unrequited love, and plundered art; it's a historical fact that most of the paintings Max searches for never resurfaced. Critics couldn't help but note that Pictures contains the promises and pitfalls of a first novel. Houghteling ...

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