The Brutal Art - Jesse Kellerman

...picked it up myself as the brown cover doesn’t really stand out. It has a little sticker on the front that says it is part of Richard & Judy’s book club. === The story === The story is told by Ethan Muller, who is an art dealer in New York. In one of his fathers flats the tenant has disappeared and all that is left behind is boxes and boxes of drawings. These pictures are all drawn on individual sheets of paper but they all link up to make a huge ...
...Ethan takes the pictures to his gallery and then tries to discover who the artist is. He gets help from a retired detective who sees the central piece of the art in a newspaper and recognises that the faces on the cherubs are young boys who were all murdered a long time before. When this is revealed the art shoots up even more in value but someone wants Ethan to stop and sends him threatening notes, but will Ethan manage to uncover the truth and ...

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Review of The Brutal Art - Jesse Kellerman

...both brilliant and highly disturbing. The artist seems to have abandoned his drawings, and Ethan takes it upon himself to display and sell the drawings in his gallery to much success. However, when he receives a phone call from a retired policeman about the content of the drawings themselves, they both realise that Ethan could be sitting on the missing pieces of a mystery involving the deaths of small boys during the 1960's and 1970's. The more Ethan ...
...the more danger he appears to be in, whilst the mystery seems to involve him more than he could ever have imagined. '''My Thoughts''' ========= There are two stories that are interwoven throughout, Ethan is telling his story of what happened when he discovered the paintings and the mystery surrounding them and the author, whilst every so often there is an interlude which relates the Muller family history, right from when the first Muller came over ...

burtybookworm 05.05.2009 · Read full review
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...I'll try to explain what the book's about, but it's complicated, so bear with me, OK? There's a New York art dealer called Ethan Muller, who's fast becoming disillusioned with the artists he shows, the art collectors he sells to and the whole art world. He has a very complicated, not to say twisted, relationship with his father, with whom he mainly communicates via his father's long-term friend and employee, Tony. One day Tony tells him he's found ...
...reluctantly agrees to look at the pictures and is stunned by what he finds: a "map of reality as [the artist] perceived it" is how Kellerman describes it. Literally hundreds and hundreds of drawings, all connected. And right at the centre, the faces of five boys, represented as cherubs. Who drew these amazing pictures? When? Why? And how significant is it that one of the "cherubs" was murdered many years before? In this current-day mystery, a retired ...

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Review of The Brutal Art - Jesse Kellerman