The Swan Thieves: A Novel

The Swan Thieves: A Novel Summary:

By Elizabeth Kostova

Publisher:   Little, Brown and Company

Number Of Pages:   576

Publication Date:   2010-01-12

ISBN-10 / ASIN:   0316065781

ISBN-13 / EAN:   9780316065788

Product Description:

Psychiatrist Andrew Marlow, devoted to his profession and the hobby he loves, has a solitary but ordered life. When renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of and becomes his patient, Marlow finds that order destroyed. Desperate to understand the secret that torments the genius, he embarks on a journey that leads him into the lives of the women closest to Oliver and a tragedy at the heart of French Impressionism. Kostova's masterful new novel travels from American cities to the coast of Normandy, from the late 19th century to the late 20th, from young love to last love. THE SWAN THIEVES is a story of obsession, history's losses, and the power of art to preserve human hope.

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