THE BURNT ORANGE HERESY (1971) opens with a little bit of
destruction of minor woodcraft:
| Two hours ago the Railway Expressman delivered the crated,
newly
| published INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FINE ARTS to my
Palm
| Beach apartment. I signed for the set, turned the
thermostat of
| the air-conditioner up three degrees, found a clawhammer in
the
| kitchen, and broke open the crate. Twenty-four beautiful
buckram-
| bound volumes, eggshell paper, deckle edged. Six laborious
years in
| preparation, more than twenty-five hundred
illustrations--436 in
| full-color plates--and each thoroughly researched article
written
| and signed by a noted authority in his specific field of
art history.
|
| Two articles were mine. And my name, James Figueras, was
also
| referred to by other critics in three more articles. By
quoting me,
| they gained authoritative support for their own
opinions.
This is one of my favourite Willeford books, by the way. I've
lent it to a couple of artists who'd never read much crime
writing and they loved it. It's certainly one of the best
art-related novels I've read.
Bill
-- William Denton : Toronto, Canada : http://www.miskatonic.org/ : Caveat lector.
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