Tim Parks. (2015). Painting Death: a Novel. Arcade.

Tim Parks. 2015. Painting Death: A Novel. Arcade.

Tim Parks, Painting Death: A Novel. Arcade, 2015.

Tim Parks. Painting Death: A Novel. Arcade, 2015.

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   • bioText: Tim Parks is the author of more than twenty novels and works of nonfiction. His novels include Europa, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His most recent work of nonfiction is Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo. His essays have appeared regularly in the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books, for which he blogs. He lives in Milan, Italy.
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Morris Duckworth has a dark past. Having married and murdered his way into a wealthy Italian family, he has become a respected member of Veronese business life. But it's not enough.
Never satisfied with being anything short of the best, he comes up with a plan to put on the most exciting art exhibition of the decade, based on a subject close to his heart: killing. All the great slaughters of scripture and classical times will be on show, from Cain and Abel, to Brutus and Caesar. But as Morris meets stiff resistance from the director of Verona's Castelvecchio museum, everything starts to unravel around him. His children are rebelling, his mistress is asking for more than he wants to give, his wife is increasingly attached to her aging confessor, and, worst of all, it's getting harder and harder to ignore the ghosts that swirl around him, and the skeletons rattling in every closet. The shame of it is that Morris Arthur Duckworth really did not want to have to kill again. Tim Parks' acclaimed Duckworth trilogy has been thirty years in the making. In Painting Death, he brings it—and his serial-killer alter ego—to a very fitting—and very funny—end.
Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

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     “Duckworth is a worthy heir to a tradition of seductive, cultured literary monsters that include Humbert Humbert [and] Hannibal Lecter."

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   • source: Times (London)
   • content: "Hovering adroitly between tragedy and farce . . . a good novel to savour by the pool in Tuscany this summer."
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   • source: Spectator
   • content: "Neatly written, full of calamitous moments in which the comedy is suddenly elbowed aside by genuine emotion."
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   • source: Guardian
   • content: "One to relish . . . sharp, funny and satirical, with a wonderfully overblown ending."
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   • source: The Australian
   • content: “This is a fiendishly clever pitch-black comedy -- if not a work of art then a supremely diverting caper."
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   • source: Financial Times
   • content: “Parks is at his strongest depicting the art world and its intrigues and intellectual snobbery."
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   • source: Booklist
   • content: "In this final chapter of the Morris Duckworth trilogy . . . Think Patricia Highsmith meets Jeff Lindsay . . . as Duckworth's voice provides a strong dose of humor."
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   • source: Publishers Weekly
   • content: "Admirers of Parks's mainstream fiction should enjoy this black comedy."
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   • source: The New York Times
   • content: “Colorful, often amusing, intermittently suspenseful . . . Parks uses the museum intrigue to draw, as he has done in his more serious efforts, a vivid, impressionistic portrait of contemporary Italy."
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      August 24, 2015
      Parks’s cerebral third Morris Duckworth mystery (after 2001’s Mimi’s Ghost) finds the middle-aged Englishman every bit as depraved as his younger self. Having systematically dispensed with members of the rich Italian family he married into, Morris is a respected (if not suspected) member of Verona society. To further ensure his good name, he has conceived a blockbuster art exhibit—Painting Death: The Art of Assassination from Caravaggio to Damien Hirst—whose theme is dear to his heart. Morris relishes the bloody details of each famous masterpiece, since they remind him of his own sociopathic artistry. Faced with a meddlesome museum director while juggling his rebellious children, enigmatic wife, and sexy Libyan mistress, he holds secret consultations with his advisory board: the ghosts of his seven earlier victims. When Morris decides that certain Veronese citizens deserve to die, the local cardinal and the mayor, who are aware of his homicidal predilections, have different ideas. Admirers of Parks’s mainstream fiction should enjoy this black comedy, but mystery fans may find it too wordy and the pace too slow.

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      October 15, 2015
      In this final chapter of the Morris Duckworth trilogy, the Verona businessman and comically self-absorbed serial killer has been awarded the key to the city. In his acceptance speech, Morris impetuously announces his intent to create a unique art exhibition that will draw widespread, lucrative attention to Verona. Painting Death, an exhibition of masterpieces depicting murder, assassination, and genocide, is Morris' obsession, and he's convinced that as a sensitive, cerebral killer he can reveal new insights into murder. Guided by the voices of the wife, lover, and business associates he's killed, Morris delves into the duplicitous world of art-museum politics. But, despite his best efforts to keep his and the public's attention focused on the show, Morris is lured back into murderous thoughts by the pressure of a co-curator squashing his vision, a defiant son, demanding mistress, and renewed interest from the authorities in a murder Morris thought he had hidden. Morris' voice provides a strong dose of humor: think Patricia Highsmith meets Jeff Lindsay, as mockery combined with a purposefully caricatured supporting cast creates smart social commentary.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2015, American Library Association.)

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Never satisfied with being anything short of the best, he comes up with a plan to put on the most exciting art exhibition of the decade, based on a subject close to his heart: killing. All the great slaughters of scripture and classical times will be on show, from Cain and Abel, to Brutus and Caesar. But as Morris meets stiff resistance from the director of Verona's Castelvecchio museum, everything starts to unravel around him. His children are rebelling, his mistress is asking for more than he wants to give, his wife is increasingly attached to her aging confessor, and, worst of all, it's getting harder and harder to ignore the ghosts that swirl around him, and the skeletons rattling in every closet. The shame of it is that Morris Arthur Duckworth really did not want to have to kill again. Tim...

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