The Improbability of Love

Annie McDee, thirty-one and recovering from the end of a long-term relationship, works as a chef for two sinister art dealers. She's just spent her meager savings on a dusty junk-shop painting for her new (and unsuitable) boyfriend. But when he doesn't show up for his birthday dinner, it becomes hers. And amazingly, the painting speaks--though only we, the readers, hear "him." Shrewd, spoiled, charming, world-weary, and cynical, he comments, from his unique perspective, on Annie and the modern world, but he also recounts tales of his previous owners: Louis XV, Voltaire, and Catherine the Great, among them. Once it becomes known that Annie has the painting--whose provenance involves the Nazis--she finds herself at the center of a frantic scramble among dealers, collectors, and other highly interested parties for its ownership. Here is a dazzlingly irreverent and entertaining many-layered tale of a devious world where, however improbably, love will triumph.

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