Join us to discuss THE ART THIEF by Michael Finkel. For a copy of the book and the Zoom link, contact Marianne Charles at mcharles@cooklib.org.
This riveting true story of art, crime, love and an insatiable hunger to possess beauty at any cost draws us into the strange and fascinating world of prolific art thief, Stéphane Breitwieser, who stole and kept more than 300 objects until one final act of hubris brought everything crashing down.
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