The Swan Thieves
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The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova
Andrew Marlow, a psychiatrist, has a perfectly ordered life--solitary, perhaps, but full of devotion to his profession and the painting hobby he loves. This order is destroyed when the renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes Marlow's patient.When Oliver refuses to talk or cooperate, Marlow finds himself going beyond his own legal and ethical boundaries to understand the secret that torments this silent genius, a journey that will lead him into the lives of the women closest to Robert Oliver and toward a tragedy at the heart of French Impressionism. Moving from American museums to the coast of Normandy, from the late nineteenth century to the late twentieth, from young love to last love, THE SWAN THIEVES is a story of obsession, the losses of history, and the power of art to preserve human hope.
The Historian, by Elizabeth Kostova, is an worldwide bestseller. She received her BA from Yale and her MFA from the University of Michigan, where she was awarded the Hopwood Award for Novel-in-Progress.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780316065788 |
| ISBN 10 | 0316065781 |
| Title | The Swan Thieves |
| Author | Elizabeth Kostova |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Little Brown and Company |
| Year published | 2010-01-12 |
| Number of pages | 564 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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