A Nearly Perfect Copy

Wonderfully witty and stylish. . . . A smart page turner . . . Amend creates very real characters who live in a very unreal world. -- Chicago Tribune Amend tells an absorbing story of believable characters walking a tightrope of ethical dilemma and despair. . . . Artistic and beautiful. -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch Intricate and ambitious . . . Amend's characters [are] relatable and visceral. . . . [Her] crisp, even prose is hard to pull away from and subtle in its elegance. -- The Dallas Morning News [A] fast-paced, intriguing novel. -- People Amend creates suspense by charting in wincing detail Elm's and Gabriel's progress through ethically gray areas in the art market to unquestionably illegal acts. . . . Well-wrought . . . the author meticulously delineates [her characters'] yearnings and frustrations. . . . Cleverly rendered. -- The Washington Post Amend draws sharp characters [and] creates a nicely evolving plot. . . . What unfolds is acutely appealing: various characters struggling to overcome defeat and failure in their private and public lives. . . . I got caught up in their problems, their struggles. I loved the lore about the art business. Really, I found this to be a terrifically entertaining novel that never lost its hold on the hearts of its characters or mine. --Alan Cheuse, NPR Beautiful. . . . Amend's brisk, complex second novel focuses on artistic lineage and forgery, loss and replacement, and questions of origin and originality. . . . Stunningly well-researched, A Nearly Perfect Copy is studded with fascinating detail. -- Mid-American Review A flawlessly rendered, totally engrossing, class-and-continent hopping story. . . . Every scene, every page, every passage of this novel has been written with the stunning clarity and great humanity of a true artist at the height of her abilities. My guess is, if you read this book you will soon be shoving it intoe