The Art Of Murder by Jose Carlos Somoza - ISBN: 9780349118833
Paperback
A darkly absorbing, atmospheric thriller of high culture and low morals.

The Art Of Murder

$74.38

  • Paperback

    480 pages

  • Release Date

    28 August 2005

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Summary

In 2006, the art world has moved far beyond sheep in formaldehyde and the most avant-garde movement is to use living people as artwork. Undergoing weeks of preparation to become ‘canvases’, the models are required to stay in their pose for ten to twelve hours a day and, as art pieces, they are also for sale. After being exhibited, the ‘canvases’ can be bought and taken to the purchaser’s home, where they are rented for weeks or months.

Many beautiful young men and women long to become a…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780349118833
ISBN-10:0349118833
Author:Jose Carlos Somoza
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Abacus
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:480
Release Date:28 August 2005
Weight:320g
Dimensions:201mm x 330mm x 132mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

Chilly, clever and gripping by turns. - SUNDAY TIMES

Simply delicious. It stubbornly fails to be pigeon-holed: it is a dark thriller and more… This is an important novel which demands to be read- and heeded. - IRISH EXAMINER

Somoza breathes originality, wit, satire, and suspense into a moribund genre. - GOOD BOOK GUIDE

Wonderfully aberrant ideas about humanity and aesthetics are spun out of this intriguing fiction… Somoza entices us along with shifts in tempo, offbeat aesthetic and pragmatic interrogations by the two detectives, and some crankily comic visions of the f - TLS

About The Author

Jose Carlos Somoza

Jose Carlos Somoza is a doctor of medicine, and specialist in psychiatry, he has received, amongst others, the Cervantes Theatre Prize, the Cafe Gijon Prize, and in 2000 DAFNE DESVANECIDA was shortlisted for one of the most important Spanish literary prizes, the Nadal Prize

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