Enigma Variations

Richard Price is Dittman Professor of American Studies and Professor of Anthropology and History at College of William and Mary in Virginia. Sally Price is Dittman Professor of American Studies and Professor of Anthropology at College of William and Mary in Virginia.

A fabulous and unique artifact, an art-historical whodunit told with great flair, intelligence, and sensitivity. Like the art it tells us so much about, Enigma Variations is a hybrid work that keeps tempting you to read it as fact although it is officially labeled fiction...For the reader, puzzling out which is which is part of the enigmatic charm of the Prices' book--a novel based on the authors' anthropological experiences. The Prices certainly have the great novelist's ability to breathe life into the people they invent--and also, it appears, to breathe life into the living.