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ALL THAT GLITTERS: A STORY OF FRIENDSHIP, FRAUD AND FINE ART

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�12.8 x 2.8 x 19.6 cm

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Genre

Humanities

Weight Kg

0.5

Author Name

Orlando Whitfield

About Author

Orlando Whitfield is a British writer and former art dealer best known for his memoir All That Glitters. Drawing on his experiences working in the contemporary art world, he offers an insider�s perspective on wealth, ambition, and excess, blending sharp observation with reflective, often cautionary storytelling about the costs of glamour and success.

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A 2024 Book of the Year pick in the Economist, Independent, Prospect, Apollo, New Yorker and at WaterstonesA 2024 Summer Read in the Economist, Telegraph, Guardian, New Yorker, i, and the Evening Standard''My favourite book of 2024... A masterclass of a book'' Brandon Taylor''An art world Great Gatsby, deliciously withering and dishy.'' Patrick Radden Keefe''Orlando Whitfield [is a] really good writer with crazy stories to tell'' Hanif Kureishi DECEPTION IS A FINE ART. When Orlando Whitfield first meets Inigo Philbrick, they are students dreaming of dealing art for a living. Their friendship lasts for fifteen years until one day, Inigo - by then the most successful dealer of his generation - suddenly disappears, accused of a fraud so gigantic and audacious it rocks the art world to its core.A sparklingly sharp memoir of greed, ambition and madness, All That Glitters will take you to the heart of the contemporary art world, a place wilder and wealthier than you could ever imagine.''Explosive... the inside story of the biggest art fraud in American history'' Guardian''Liar''s Poker, but for art'' Economist