The Golden Flea
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Across America and around the world, people wander through flea markets to search for lost treasures. For decades, no such market was more renowned than the legendary Chelsea flea market, which sprawled over several blocks and within an old garage on the west side of Manhattan. Visitors would trawl through booths crammed with vintage dresses, rare books, ancient swords, glass eyeballs, Afghan rugs, West African fetish dolls, Old Master paintings, and much more.
In The Golden Flea, the acclaimed writer Michael Rips takes listeners on a trip through this charmed world. With a beguiling style that has won praise from Joan Didion and Susan Orlean, Rips recounts his obsession with the flea and its treasures and provides a fascinating account of the business of buying and selling antiques. Along the way, he introduces us to the flea's lovable oddball cast of vendors, pickers, and collectors, including a haberdasher who only sells to those he deems worthy; an art dealer whose obscure paintings often go for enormous sums; a troubadour who sings to attract customers; and the Prophet, who finds wisdom among all the treasures and trash.
As Rips' passion for collecting grows and the flea's last days loom, he undertakes a quest to prove the provenance of a mysterious painting that just might be the one.
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Determined to save the antiques store she has inherited from ruin after the unexplained disappearance of her parents, Sarah Lester discovers a jumbled collection of vintage postcards that leads her on a journey through time. Unprepared for the story the postcards weave about their reclusive former owner, Sarah’s life is thrown into disarray as she is transported to Victorian London, colonial New Zealand, and to the British Raj in 19th-century India.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing and disorganized
- De Miranda en 03-16-22
De: Kirsten McKenzie
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The Ghost and Mrs. McClure
- The Haunted Bookshop Mystery Series, Book 1
- De: Cleo Coyle
- Narrado por: Caroline Shaffer, Traber Burns
- Duración: 7 h y 4 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,686
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,459
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Young widow Penelope Thornton-McClure and her old Aunt Sadie are making ends meet by managing a mystery book shop - a quaint Rhode Island landmark rumored to be haunted. Pen may not believe in ghosts, but she does believe in good publicity - like nabbing Timothy Brennan for a book signing. But soon after the bestselling thriller writer reveals a secret about the store's link to a 1940s murder, he keels over dead - and right in the middle of the store's new community events space. Who gives Mrs. McClure the first clue that it was murder?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Creative take of a ghost detective
- De Victoria J. Mejia-Gewe en 12-05-18
De: Cleo Coyle
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Death at the Chateau Bremont
- Verlaque and Bonnet Provençal Mystery Series, Book 1
- De: M.L. Longworth
- Narrado por: Christa Lewis
- Duración: 9 h y 38 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 138
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 121
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 121
When local nobleman Étienne de Bremont falls to his death from the family château, it sets the historic town of Aix-en-Provence abuzz with rumors. The once-idyllic town suddenly seems filled with people who could have benefited from Bremont's death - including his playboy brother, François, who's heavily in debt and mixed up with some unsavory characters. But just as the list of suspects is being narrowed down, another death occurs. And this time, there can be no doubt - it's murder.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Narrator is awful
- De F. Miller en 05-06-23
De: M.L. Longworth
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Elementary, She Read
- De: Vicki Delany
- Narrado por: Kelly Clare
- Duración: 8 h y 25 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 242
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 212
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 209
When Gemma finds a rare and potentially valuable magazine hidden in the bookshop, she and her friend Jayne set off to find the owner, only to stumble upon a dead body. The highly perceptive Gemma is the police's first suspect, so she puts her consummate powers of deduction to work to clear her name, investigating a handsome rare books expert, the dead woman's suspiciously unmoved son, and a whole family of greedy characters desperate to cash in on their inheritance.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A great read, but only for some
- De TK en 12-05-19
De: Vicki Delany
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Chronicles of a Fashion Buyer
- The Mostly True Adventures of an International Fashion Buyer
- De: Mercedes Gonzalez
- Narrado por: Mercedes Gonzalez
- Duración: 9 h y 53 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 24
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 22
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 22
Fashion is a business of smoke and mirrors, notorious for crushing the souls of most who dare to be part of the industry. Go on a global expedition with New York City-based fashion buyer, strategist, and consultant, Mercedes Gonzalez, as she learns that there is no glamour in fashion and that only cutthroat corporate espionage prevails. From politicking with blood diamond dealers and Russian kingpins to living in indigenous villages, she has relied on her street smarts and fear of her uncle in order to outwit the industry tyrants at their own game.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very Enagaging
- De Rainbow en 07-31-23
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The Lost Painting
- The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece
- De: Jonathan Harr
- Narrado por: Campbell Scott
- Duración: 6 h y 22 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 529
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 239
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 237
An Italian village on a hilltop near the Adriatic coast, a decaying palazzo facing the sea, and in the basement, cobwebbed and dusty, lit by a single bulb, an archive unknown to scholars. Here, a young graduate student from Rome, Francesca Cappelletti, makes a discovery that inspires a search for a work of art of incalculable value, a painting lost for almost two centuries.
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5 out of 5 stars
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an incredible and complex story unfolds seamlessly
- De Jeremiah en 10-31-05
De: Jonathan Harr
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Fifteen Postcards
- The Old Curiosity Shop, Book 1
- De: Kirsten McKenzie
- Narrado por: Tracey Llewelyn
- Duración: 10 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 409
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 376
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 374
Determined to save the antiques store she has inherited from ruin after the unexplained disappearance of her parents, Sarah Lester discovers a jumbled collection of vintage postcards that leads her on a journey through time. Unprepared for the story the postcards weave about their reclusive former owner, Sarah’s life is thrown into disarray as she is transported to Victorian London, colonial New Zealand, and to the British Raj in 19th-century India.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing and disorganized
- De Miranda en 03-16-22
De: Kirsten McKenzie
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Wear Your Dreams
- My Life in Tattoos
- De: Ed Hardy, Joel Selvin
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller
- Duración: 8 h y 5 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 104
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 90
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 91
In Wear Your Dreams, Ed Hardy recounts his genesis as a tattoo artist and leader in the movement to recognize tattooing as a valid and rich art form, through to the ultimate transformation of his career into a multibillion dollar branding empire. This book explains how this Godfather of Tattoos fomented the explosion of tattoo art and how his influence can be witnessed on everyone, from countless celebs to ink-adorned rockers to butterfly-branded, stroller-pushing moms.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Read
- De JP Beyler en 02-15-18
De: Ed Hardy, y otros
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The City of Falling Angels
- De: John Berendt
- Narrado por: Holter Graham
- Duración: 12 h y 52 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 563
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 267
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 265
The author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil returns to give us an intimate look at the "magic, mystery, and decadence" of the city of Venice and its inhabitants.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Do Yourself a Favor and Skip This Book!
- De AUDIBLE en 10-08-05
De: John Berendt
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My Mrs. Brown
- A Novel
- De: William Norwich
- Narrado por: Angela Brazil
- Duración: 7 h y 29 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 55
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 49
When the grand dame of Ashville passes away, Mrs. Brown is called upon to inventory her estate and comes across a dress that changes everything. This isn't a Cinderella confection; it's a simple yet exquisitely tailored Oscar de la Renta sheath and jacket - a suit that, Mrs. Brown realizes with startling clarity, will say everything she has ever wished to convey. She must have it. And so Mrs. Brown begins her odyssey to purchase the dress.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Sweet story
- De Pam Hewitt en 05-01-20
De: William Norwich
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Tagged for Death
- A Sarah Winston Garage Sale Mystery
- De: Sherry Harris
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
- Duración: 8 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 104
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 96
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 95
Starting your life over at age 38 isn't easy, but that's what Sarah Winston finds herself facing when her husband CJ runs off with a 19-year-old temptress named Tiffany. Sarah's self-prescribed therapy happily involves hitting all the garage and tag sales in and around her small town in Massachusetts. But after returning from a particularly successful day searching for yard-sale treasures, Sarah finds a grisly surprise in one of her bags: a freshly bloodied shirt...that undoubtedly belongs to her ex, CJ, who now happens to be Ellington's chief of police. And Tiffany has gone missing.
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3 out of 5 stars
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frustrating book
- De Anonymous User en 01-08-23
De: Sherry Harris
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If Walls Could Talk
- Haunted Home Renovation, Book 1
- De: Juliet Blackwell
- Narrado por: Xe Sands
- Duración: 7 h y 27 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,758
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,587
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,579
Melanie Turner has made quite a name for herself remodeling historic houses in the San Francisco Bay Area. But now her reputation may be on the line. At her newest project, a run-down Pacific Heights mansion, Mel is visited by the ghost of a colleague who recently met a bad end with power tools. Mel hopes that by nailing the killer, she can rid herself of the ghostly presence of the murdered man - and not end up a construction casualty herself....
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3 out of 5 stars
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A Nice Change
- De Carole T. en 06-15-15
De: Juliet Blackwell
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The Contemporaries
- Travels in the 21st-Century Art World
- De: Roger White
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
- Duración: 8 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 84
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 69
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 71
From young artists trying to elbow their way in to those working hard at dropping out, White's essential audiobook offers a once-in-a-generation glimpse of the inner workings of the American art world at a moment of unparalleled ambition, uncertainty, and creative exuberance.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Mispronunciations Spoil This Reading!
- De Jenny Jenkins en 06-17-15
De: Roger White
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Beer Money
- A Memoir of Privilege and Loss
- De: Frances Stroh
- Narrado por: Erin Bennett
- Duración: 6 h y 37 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 212
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 191
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 190
Frances Stroh's earliest memories are ones of great privilege: shopping trips to London and New York, lunches served by black-tied waiters at the Regency Hotel, and a house filled with precious antiques, which she was forbidden to touch. Established in Detroit in 1850, by 1984 the Stroh Brewing Company had become the largest private beer fortune in America and a brand emblematic of the American dream itself; while Stroh was coming of age, the Stroh family fortune was estimated to be worth $700 million.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Beer boring
- De Richard E. Putt Jr. en 05-22-16
De: Frances Stroh
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Under the Midnight Sun
- A Novel
- De: Keigo Higashino, Alexander O. Smith - translator, Joseph Reeder
- Narrado por: David Shih
- Duración: 19 h y 22 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 128
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 110
In Osaka in 1973, the body of a murdered man is found in an abandoned building. Investigating the crime, Detective Sasagaki is unable to find the killer. Over the next 20 years, through the lens of a succession of characters, Higashino tells the story of two teens, Ryo and Yukiho, whose lives are most affected by the crime, and the obsessed detective, Sasagaki, who continues to investigate the murder, looking for the elusive truth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So many subplots and twists
- De Janani Vasudevan en 07-03-20
De: Keigo Higashino, y otros
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The Secret Life of Sunflowers
- De: Marta Molnar, Dana Marton
- Narrado por: Kendra Murray
- Duración: 9 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,354
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,260
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,260
When Hollywood auctioneer Emsley Wilson finds her famous grandmother's diary while cleaning out her New York brownstone, the pages are full of surprises. The first surprise is, the diary isn't her grandmother's. It belongs to Johanna Bonger, Vincent van Gogh's sister-in-law.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Nothing like a expected…
- De LOVETOQUILT en 05-06-23
De: Marta Molnar, y otros
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The Price of Illusion
- A Memoir
- De: Joan Juliet Buck
- Narrado por: Joan Juliet Buck
- Duración: 15 h y 18 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 48
From Joan Juliet Buck, former editor-in-chief of Paris Vogue, comes a dazzling memoir: a fabulous account of four decades spent in the creative heart of London, New York, Los Angeles, and Paris, chronicling Buck's quest to discover the difference between glitter and gold, illusion and reality, and what looks like happiness from the thing itself.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Narcissistic name dropper
- De Marlette en 12-03-19
De: Joan Juliet Buck
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Young Heroes of the Soviet Union
- A Memoir and a Reckoning
- De: Alex Halberstadt
- Narrado por: Alex Halberstadt
- Duración: 9 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 30
Can trauma be inherited? It is this question that sets Alex Halberstadt off on a quest to name and acknowledge a legacy of family trauma, and to end a century-old cycle of estrangement. As Halberstadt revisits the sites of his family’s formative traumas, he uncovers a multigenerational transmission of fear, suspicion, melancholy, and rage. And he comes to realize something more: Nations, like people, possess formative traumas that penetrate into the most private recesses of their citizens’ lives.
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2 out of 5 stars
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some depth and some historical narration
- De turgan@monomood.com en 09-21-21
De: Alex Halberstadt
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The Forgery of Venus
- De: Michael Gruber
- Narrado por: Eric Conger
- Duración: 10 h y 3 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 159
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 91
Chaz Wilmot makes his living cranking out old-master parodies for ads and magazine covers. When he's offered a job restoring a Venetian palace fresco, he is at first, skeptical - he immediately sees it is more a forgery than a restoration. But he is soon seduced by the challenge and throws himself into the work, doing the job brilliantly.
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4 out of 5 stars
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art sci fi psychological thriller
- De Susan en 11-06-11
De: Michael Gruber
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Golden Flea
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Total5 out of 5 stars
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- Jaann Meyers
- 08-12-21
Loved every minute of it!
Such a great story!
Especially for those of us who go to the various flea markets, on a regular basis!
The writer let you imagen exactly what was taking place! and being that I know this man made it more interesting!
Terrific book!
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- The Kabessa's
- 12-04-22
Fantastic
For any one in NYC or any one who ever visited the flea market a weekend ritual . Just amazing
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