Murray, Sabina. Forgery.(Brief article)(Book review)

Murray, Sabina. Forgery. Grove. Jun. 2007. c.272p. ISBN 0-8021-1844-5 [ISBN 978-0-8021-1844-8]. $24. F

Rupert Brigg, an American visiting Greece in the 1960s, plays the central role in this latest from PEN/Faulkner Award winner Murray (A Carnivore's Inquiry). But the main draw is neither the setting nor Brigg's hunt for lost treasures of classical antiquity. The novel is a pleasure because of the way the real Brigg unfolds throughout; the story of his divorce and of his extreme grief and sense of loss are not apparent at the …