After stumbling upon the find of a lifetime—an 18th-century portrait of a gentleman who looks just like him—at a Paris auction house, antiques collector Pierre-Francois Chaumont gets the chance to abandon his mundane existence and walk into a brand new life. By the best-selling author of The President's Hat. Original. 15,000 first printing.
A Parisian antiques collector finds himself in a case of mistaken identity after buying a portrait which curiously resembles him.
An enthralling mystery about chasing the unknown, the nostalgia for what could have been, and most importantly, the persistence of curiosity.” San Francisco Book Review on The Red NotebookAvid antiques collector Pierre-François Chaumont unearths the find of a lifetime at a Paris auction house: an eighteenth-century portrait of a gentleman who looks just like him. Researching into the painting's history, he has the chance to abandon his tedious existence and walk into a brand new life . . .Antoine Laurain is a Parisian screenwriter, antiques collector, and prize-winning novelist. The President’s Hat was a 2013 ABA Indies Introduce choice.