This month's selection is The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and Dangerous Obsession by Michael Finkel. The Brown Bag Book Club meeting will be held in Logan Auditorium, 12-1 PM on Wednesday, August 13th. The group meets on the second Wednesday of the month. Registration required. Visitors and new members are always welcome!
One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the world’s most prolific art thief, Stéphane Breitwieser.
In this spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius, the best-selling author of The Stranger in the Woods brings us into Breitwieser’s strange world—unlike most thieves, he never stole for money, keeping all his treasures in a single room where he could admire them.
For centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless ways from all over the world, but no one has been quite as successful at it as the master thief Stéphane Breitwieser. Carrying out more than two hundred heists over nearly eight years—in museums and cathedrals all over Europe—Breitwieser, along with his girlfriend who worked as his lookout, stole more than three hundred objects, until it all fell apart in spectacular fashion.
Audie Award Nominee for Best Non-Fiction Narrator (2024), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2023)
Copies of the print edition in regular and large print will be available at the library's Circulation Desk one month ahead of the meeting and audiobook copies can be found in the Libby app.
Please email Christina at [email protected] if you are having trouble borrowing a copy of the book.