A pair of wealthy art collectors promise Arlo Howlett, an ambitious young art critic, a valuable piece from their collection if he can make an obscure sculptor famous. Arlo accepts this half joking and cynical wager, but when he sees Jean Trace����s masterwork, The Falling Men, he is horrified.
Arlo believes that all the faces resemble his own youthful features before the disfiguring accident that still haunts him, and he becomes obsessed with the work andits creator, a brusk, hard working woman who regards him with instant dislike and who proves ruthlessly determined to preserve her secrets. Arlo's desire to unearth what Jean calls " ancient history" will complicate their lives and put them into both moral – and mortal – danger.
Genre: Literary Fiction
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