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When ancient notebooks turn up in a Long Island garage, Peter Van Overloop, a Columbia graduate student, sets to translating them, and finds himself immersed in the life and times of the Dutch painter Frans Hals. for the notebooks seem to be Hal's diaries, and they contain a fascinating... read more

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On April 29, 1992, Christopher Barnett, the twelve-year-old son of Don Barnett, a successful Honda automobile leader who had just bought a farm near the eastern tip of Long Island, found a large packing case buried under a thick mat of stale hay in the barn loft.

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  1. Michael Kernan (Author)

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  1. 20c novel
  2. art
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