Michael Frayn’s other novels include Spies, which won the Whitbread Best Novel award, and Skios, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize. A young would-be art historian suddenly sees the chance of a lifetime: th. Frayn, a highly successful playwright (Noises Off) as well as a novelist of note (A Landing on the Sun Now You. Read 398 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. 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. Metropolitan Books, 26 (342pp) ISBN 978-0-8050-6285-4. 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. 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. Headlong begins when Martin Clay, a young would-be art historian, believes he has discovered a missing masterpiece.
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