Headlong
About this book
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
Headlong begins when Martin Clay, a young would-be art historian, believes he has discovered a missing masterpiece. The owner of the painting is oblivious to its potential and asks Martin to help him sell it, leaving Martin with the chance of a lifetime: if he could only separate the painter from its owner, he would be able to perform a great public service, to make his professional reputation, perhaps even rather a lot of money as well. But is the painting really what Martin believes it to be? As Martin is drawn further into this moral and intellectual labyrinth, events start to spiral out of control . . .
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Whitbread Novel Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction,
Headlong is an ingeniously comic thriller that follows a young philosophy lectuerer's obsessive race through the art world in search of an elusive masterpiece. Michael Frayn's other novels include
Spies, which won the Whitbread Best Novel award
, and
Skios, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Praise
- Title Page
- Contents
- Aims and Approaches
- The Prospect Presented
- What Are We Looking At?
- The Business Plan
- A Hint of Thunder
- The Little Walker
- The First Shipment
- Hard Cash
- The Deal Done
- Results and Conclusions
- Author’s Note
- About the Author
- By the Same Author
- Copyright