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  • By: Charles Willeford
  • Narrated by: Adam Verner
  • Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (8 ratings)
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Summary

The classic neo-noir novel acclaimed as Willeford’s best, soon to be a major film

Fast-talking, backstabbing, womanizing, and fiercely ambitious art critic James Figueras will do anything - blackmail, burglary, and beyond - to make a name for himself. When an unscrupulous collector offers Figueras a career-making chance to interview Jacques Debierue, the greatest living - and most reclusive - artist, the critic must decide how far he will go to become the art-world celebrity he hungers to be. Will Figueras stop at the opportunity to skim some cream for himself or push beyond morality’s limits to a bigger payoff?

Crossing the art world with the underworld, Willeford creates a novel of dark hue and high aesthetic polish. The Burnt Orange Heresy - the 1970s crime classic - has lost none of its savage delights as it re-creates the making of a murderer, calmly and with exquisite tension, while satirizing the workings of the art world as the ultimate con.
©1971 Charles Willeford. Published in 2020 by the Overlook Press, an imprint of ABRAMS, New York. All rights reserved (P)2020 Blackstone Publishing
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A fly on Jesus

An ambitious art critic allows his passion for art to drive out compassion for anything else. With careful detail, Charles Willeford depicts the corrupted ecosystem of an art world inextricably tangled with the greed that sustains it

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