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Art dealer Stan Lauryssens made millions in modern art, but he sold only one name: Salvador Dal�. The surrealist painter's work was a hot commodity for the newly rich, investors, and businessmen looking to launder their black-market cash. Lauryssens didn't mind looking the other way; he just hoped the buyers would look the other way as well. The artworks he sold came from some very shady sources. And he soon discovered that the shadiest source of all was Dal� himself. The more successful Lauryssens became, the closer he got to Dal�'s inner circle, until he found himself living next door to the aging artist. There, while Lauryssens hid from Interpol's detectives, he learned more about Dal�'s secret history, the studio of artists who produced his work, and the money-making machine that kept Dal�'s extravagant lifestyle afloat long after his creativity began to flounder. Dal� & I offers a behind-the-scenes view of the commerce and conspiracy that can go hand-in-hand in the art world, written by a man who has been to the top only to discover it was no different than the bottom.

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"Crass, callous, sordid and cynical---thus, utterly true to the spirit of Dali and a certain bestseller.-- ""Kirkus"" ""A highly readable blend of memoir and picaresque, Stan Lauryssens's book explores the differences between the genuine and the bogus, not only in the business of art, but more important, in human relationships."" -- ""James Sexton, editor of Selected Letters of Aldous Huxley"" ""Lauryssens, an award-winning European crime writer, boldly confesses his role in spreading the plague of phony Dal�s in a jaw-dropping chronicle of jet-set swindling matched by an X-rated portrait-in-glimpses of one of the freakiest of art celebrities."" -- ""Booklist"" ""The art market is a dark circus of hope and deceit. Lauryssens provides us with an intimate portrait of Dal�, its mustachioed ringmaster: as eccentric as he is ingenious, as manipulative as he is fascinating."" -- ""Noah Charney, author of The Art Thief"""

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Stan Lauryssens was an art dealer specializing in works by Salvador Dal� for over a decade. After spending time in prison for the sale of bogus Dal�s, he turned to writing crime fiction. He won Belgium's Hercule Poirot Award in 2002 for best crime fiction of the year. He now divides his time between Antwerp and London. William Dufris attended the University of Southern Maine in Portland-Gorham before pursuing a career in voice work in London and then the United States. He has won more than twenty AudioFile Earphones Awards, was voted one of the Best Voices at the End of the Century by AudioFile magazine, and won the prestigious Audie Award in 2012 for best nonfiction narration. He lives with his family in Maine.

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