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Bets and scams

a novel of the art world

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An edition of Bets and scams (1996)

Bets and scams

a novel of the art world

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Altstad is a 29-year old art historian from a Dutch Jewish family which was nearly wiped out by the Nazis. Leaving academic life uneasily behind him after earning a PhD in New York, he has high ambitions that by the age of 30 he will have succeeded both in love and as an international dealer in old masters. He is confident of success until, with the deadline just weeks away, his girlfriend questions the quality of their relationship and his accountant the solvency of his business.

Piling risk upon risk, Altstad puts the one valuable heirloom in his family - Emanuel De Witte's painting of a Portuguese synagogue - into play in a plunging market.

Altstad's best customer is the Beverly Hills project developer, Mitchell Fleishig. Fleishig idolizes Dutch painting, regarding it as mankind's supreme accomplishment in manipulating reality. Unable to cope with the economic downturn of the 1990s, he overextends himself by lying to the bank and to a moneylending shark who has connections with the Mafia.

When both the bank and the mob clamp down on him, he turns to the only source where his credit for money is still good, Altstad, with life-threatening results. Altstad's bet is pitted against Fleishig's scam in a novel of the art world in the 1990's and of two men unable to face defeat.

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Marion Boyars
Language
English
Pages
208

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1996, Marion Boyars
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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PT5881.29.C594 D8813 1996, PT5881.29.C594 D8813 1995

The Physical Object

Pagination
208 p. ;
Number of pages
208

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL787384M
Internet Archive
betsscamsnovelof00schw
ISBN 10
0714530085
LCCN
95019678
OCLC/WorldCat
32589746
Library Thing
5559520
Goodreads
660875

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