A postmodern masterpiece about fraud and forgery by one of the most venerated novelists of the last century. The Recognitions is a sweeping depiction of a world in which everything that anyone recognizes as beautiful or true or good emerges as anything but: our world. The book is a masquerade moving from New England to New York to Madrid from the art world to the underworld but it centers on the story of Wyatt Gwyon the son of a New England pastor who forsakes religion to devote himself to painting only to despair of his inspiration. In expiation he will paint nothing but flawless copies of revered old masters--copies however that find their way into the hands of a sinister financial wizard by the name of Recktall Brown who sells them as the real thing. Gwyons story is only one of many that fill the pages of a novel that is as monstrously populated as the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch. Throughout William Gaddiss characters preen and scheme and party and toil pursuing salvation through the debasement of desire. Dismissed uncomprehendingly by the critics on publication in 1955 and ignored by the literary world for decades after The Recognitions is now recognized as one of the great American novels.
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