Description
Elm Howells has a loving family and a distinguished career at an elite Manhattan art auction house. But after a tragic loss throws her into an emotional crisis, she pursues a reckless course of action that jeopardizes her personal and professional success. Meanwhile, talented artist Gabriel Connois wearies of remaining at the margins of the capricious Parisian art scene. Desperate for recognition, he embarks on a scheme that threatens his burgeoning reputation. As these narratives converge, with disastrous consequences, A Nearly Perfect Copy boldly challenges our presumptions about originality and authenticity, loss and replacement, and the perilous pursuit of perfection.
Author: Allison Amend
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 01/28/2014
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.09h x 5.20w x 0.69d
ISBN13: 9780345803146
ISBN10: 0345803140
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Psychological
- Fiction | Family Life | General
- Fiction | Women
About the Author
Allison Amend, a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, is the author of the Independent Publisher's Award-winning short story collection Things That Pass for Love and the novel Stations West, which was a finalist for the 2011 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature and the Oklahoma Book Award. She lives in New York City, where she teaches creative writing at Lehman College.