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Headlong by Frayn, Michael is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Headlong about?

Michael Frayn’s ingeniously comic art thriller is about a young philosophy lecturer’s obsessive hunt for a missing masterpiece. "(R)ueful and amusing" (Randy Cohen, The New York Times Book Review)."You can't help feeling (...) that he may have conceived the book backward, with the plot patched on as justification and frame for Frayn's seriously thinking about the malleability of meaning in the arts." - Judith Dunford, The Los Angeles TimesA novel of historical investigation and comic invention, Headlong pitches from gallery to museum to library deliver an extended lesson in iconography and aesthetics. It uses the elusive story behind a painting, which is presumed - by Martin Clay, an easily-distracted philosophy lecturer - to be a lost work of Brueghel. He risks everything he has in his efforts to establish its provenance and then spirit it from its owner."In his antic new novel, Headlong, the British playwright Michael Frayn has constructed an ingenious plot around a missing Bruegel painting, and in doing so, created his own resonant portrait of human folly. (...) (A) novel that turns out to be as entertaining as it is intelligent, as stimulating as it is funny." - Michiko Ka

Who reads Headlong?

Author

Frayn, Michael

Publisher

Faber and Faber Ltd

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780571249190

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Thriller, Other Thrillers Categories

Rating

3.49 / 5 (50 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14