Tulip Fever by Deborah Moggach

Tulip Fever by Deborah Moggach

A sensual tale of art, lust, and deception--now a major motion picture

In 1630s Amsterdam, tulipomania has seized the populace. Everywhere men are seduced by the fantastic exotic flower. But for wealthy merchant Cornelis Sandvoort, it is his young and beautiful wife, Sophia, who stirs his soul. She is the prize he desires, the woman he hopes will bring him the joy that not even his considerable fortune can buy.

Cornelis yearns for an heir, but so far he and Sophia have failed to produce one. In a bid for immortality, he commissions a portrait of them both by the talented young painter Jan van Loos. But as Van Loos begins to capture Sophia's likeness on canvas, a slow passion begins to burn between the beautiful young wife and the talented artist.

As the portrait unfolds, so a slow dance is begun among the household's inhabitants. Ambitions, desires, and dreams breed a grand deception--and as the lies multiply, events move toward a thrilling and tragic climax.

In this richly imagined international bestseller, Deborah Moggach has created the rarest of novels--a lush, lyrical work of fiction that is also compulsively readable. Seldom has a novel so vividly evoked a time, a place, and a passion.

Praise for Tulip Fever

"Sumptuous prose . . . reads like a thriller."--The New York Times Book Review
 
"An artful novel in every sense of the word . . . deftly evokes seventeenth-century Amsterdam's vibrant atmosphere."--Los Angeles Times
 
"Need a brief escape into a beautiful and faraway world? Deborah Moggach's wonderful Tulip Fever can offer you that."--New York Post
 
"Taut with suspense and unexpected revelations."--Entertainment Weekly
 
"Elegantly absorbing."--The Philadelphia Inquirer

Moggach, Deborah: -

DEBORAH MOGGACH is a British writer who has written fifteen previous novels, some of which have been published in the US (Tulip Fever and, most recently, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel--originally published as These Foolish Things). She has adapted many of her novels as TV dramas and has also written several film scripts, including the BAFTA-nominated screenplay for Pride & Prejudice. She has also written two collections of short stories and a stage play. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a former Chair of the Society of Authors and has served on the executive committee of PEN.

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ISBN 13	9780385334921
ISBN 10	0385334923
Titel	Tulip Fever
Autor	Deborah Moggach
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Penguin Putnam Inc
Erscheinungsjahr	2001-04-10
Seitenanzahl	288
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.
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