The Portrait

A national bestseller from acclaimed author Iain Pears, The Portrait is a novel of suspense and a tour de force.

An art critic journeys to a remote island off Brittany to sit for a portrait painted by an old friend, a gifted but tormented artist living in self-imposed exile. The painter recalls their years of friendship, the gift of the critic's patronage, and his callous betrayals. As he struggles to capture the character of the man, as well as his image, on canvas, it becomes clear that there is much more than a portrait at stake...

Iain Pears's An Instance of the Fingerpost and The Dream of Scipio are also available from Riverhead Books.

Author: Iain Pears
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 04/04/2006
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.36lbs
Size: 7.12h x 4.98w x 0.59d
ISBN13: 9781594481758
ISBN10: 159448175X
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Crime
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective | Historical

About the Author
Iain Pears was born in 1955. Educated at Wadham College, Oxford, he has worked as a journalist, an art historian, and a television consultant in England, France, Italy, and the United States. He is the author of seven highly praised detective novels, a book of art history, and countless articles on artistic, financial, and historical subjects, as well as the international bestseller An Instance of the Fingerpost. He lives in Oxford, England.