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Tedrowe Emily Gray - The Talented Miss Farwell A Novel - Paperback
Tedrowe Emily Gray - The Talented Miss Farwell A Novel - Paperback
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Description: Catch Me If You Can meets Patricia Highsmith in this stylish (New York Times Book Review) page - turner of greed and obsession survival and self - invention that is a piercing character study of one unforgettable female con artist. At the end of the 1990s with the art market finally recovered from its disastrous collapse Miss Rebecca Farwell has made a killing at Christie's in New York City selling a portion of her extraordinary art collection for a rumored 900 percent profit. Dressed in couture YSL drinking the finest champagne at trendy Balthazar Reba as she's known is the picture of a wealthy art collector. To some the elusive Miss Farwell is a shark with outstanding business acumen. To others she's a heartless capitalist whose only interest in art is how much she can make. But a thousand miles from the Big Apple in the small town of Pierson Illinois Miss Farwell is someone else entirely a quiet single woman known as Becky who still lives in her family's farmhouse wears sensible shoes and works tirelessly as the town's treasurer and controller. No one understands the ins and outs of Pierson's accounts better than Becky; she's the last one in the office every night crunching the numbers. Somehow her neighbors marvel she always finds a way to get the struggling town just a little more money. What Pierson doesn t see and can never discover is that much of that money is shifted into a separate account that she controls borrowed funds used to finance her art habit. Though she quietly repays Pierson when she can the business of art is cutthroat and unpredictable. But as Reba Farwell's deals get bigger and bigger Becky Farwell's debt to Pierson spirals out of control. How long can the talented Miss Farwell continue to pull off her double life?
Title: The Talented Miss Farwell A Novel
Author(s): Tedrowe Emily Gray
Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers Inc
Barcode: 9780062897718
Pages: 368 Pages
Publication Date: 8/24/2021
Category: Thriller / Suspense
Description: Catch Me If You Can meets Patricia Highsmith in this stylish (New York Times Book Review) page - turner of greed and obsession survival and self - invention that is a piercing character study of one unforgettable female con artist. At the end of the 1990s with the art market finally recovered from its disastrous collapse Miss Rebecca Farwell has made a killing at Christie's in New York City selling a portion of her extraordinary art collection for a rumored 900 percent profit. Dressed in couture YSL drinking the finest champagne at trendy Balthazar Reba as she's known is the picture of a wealthy art collector. To some the elusive Miss Farwell is a shark with outstanding business acumen. To others she's a heartless capitalist whose only interest in art is how much she can make. But a thousand miles from the Big Apple in the small town of Pierson Illinois Miss Farwell is someone else entirely a quiet single woman known as Becky who still lives in her family's farmhouse wears sensible shoes and works tirelessly as the town's treasurer and controller. No one understands the ins and outs of Pierson's accounts better than Becky; she's the last one in the office every night crunching the numbers. Somehow her neighbors marvel she always finds a way to get the struggling town just a little more money. What Pierson doesn t see and can never discover is that much of that money is shifted into a separate account that she controls borrowed funds used to finance her art habit. Though she quietly repays Pierson when she can the business of art is cutthroat and unpredictable. But as Reba Farwell's deals get bigger and bigger Becky Farwell's debt to Pierson spirals out of control. How long can the talented Miss Farwell continue to pull off her double life?
Title: The Talented Miss Farwell A Novel
Author(s): Tedrowe Emily Gray
Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers Inc
Barcode: 9780062897718
Pages: 368 Pages
Publication Date: 8/24/2021
Category: Thriller / Suspense
