7/8/2023 0 Comments Headlong by Michael Frayn![]() ![]() That is, Martin Clay's excitement at having discovered the most important Breughel ever is mirrored by Frayn's discovery of this as a plot. Because it is a thinking person's book, it is more melancholy, funny and alert than Merc, but it operates in a similar arena of self-enactment. So how does Clay manage to get the painting out of Churt's hands without arousing his suspicions?Īs you can see, it's a caper novel - the thinking reader's A White Merc With Fins. Although Clay is not the art historian - Mrs Clay is - he does all the talking and then notices what he becomes increasingly convinced is a Breughel and not just any old Breughel, but a work which would count as the most significant artistic discovery of the century. ![]()
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