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Seniors Book Club - The Art Thief by Michael Finkel

Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025
2:00pm to 3:30pm

St. Albert Public Library (Downtown)

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Organized by: St. Albert Public Library

Feb.
12

The Seniors Book Club meets on the second Wednesday of the month at 2:00 PM in the Training Room on the 2nd floor of the Downtown Library. Register to reserve your spot in the meeting.

In this spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius, the best-selling author of The Stranger in the Woods brings us into Breitwieser's strange world--unlike most thieves, he never stole for money, keeping all his treasures in a single room where he could admire them. For centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless ways from all over the world, but no one has been quite as successful at it as the master thief Stéphane Breitwieser. Carrying out more than two hundred heists over nearly eight years--in museums and cathedrals all over Europe--Breitwieser, along with his girlfriend who worked as his lookout, stole more than three hundred objects, until it all fell apart in spectacular fashion.

St. Albert Public Library (Downtown)

5 Saint Anne Street
St. Albert, AB, T8N 3Z9