It is 1937. Winter is taking hold and the long arctic night is beginning. A single engine plane crashes in the Alaska wilderness. Its three passengers survive--the plane's pilot, C. "Killer" Armstrong Wingate; Nuna Cunningham, seventeen-years-old, pregnant, and already a widow; and Rolland "Rembrandt" Martin, an ambitious artist from Manhattan. Rolland is the only one hurt. When he awakes, he is on a bearskin rug, wolf furs covering his body, and Nuna, granddaughter of a Yup'ik shaman, is chanting unfamiliar hymns into his ear. An ivory amulet rests on his chest. Sixty years later,...
It is 1937. Winter is taking hold and the long arctic night is beginning. A single engine plane crashes in the Alaska wilderness. Its three passengers...
The international art market is booming. Agents and gallery owners, frustrated by the lack of acclaimed work available for sale, are frantically searching for accomplished artists to turn into celebrities. Larry Sullivan, an aspiring writer, and Magritt Cline, a doctoral student of art history, are hired by an anonymous patron to prepare a monograph acclaiming the art of Elias Miller, a little known artist who signs his work, Dante the Painter, and has spent ten years illustrating sections of Dante Alighieri's luminous fourteenth century poem, "The Divine Comedy." The couple is surprised and...
The international art market is booming. Agents and gallery owners, frustrated by the lack of acclaimed work available for sale, are frantically searc...