The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova

Description

Bibliographic Details

• Author: Elizabeth Kostova
• Title: The Swan Thieves
• Publisher: ‎ Back Bay Books / Little, Brown and Company; First Edition (November 3, 2010)
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Trade Paperback – 564 pages‏
• ISBN-10: ‎ 031606579X
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0316065795
• Item Weight: ‎ 1.20 pounds
• Dimensions: ‎ 5.5 x 1.6 x 8.25 inches
• Book Condition: Used – Very Good (may show some discoloration on page edges)
• Cover Condition: Very Good
• Edition: First Edition

Synopsis:

Psychiatrist Andrew Marlow, devoted to his profession and the painting hobby he loves, has a solitary but ordered life. When renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art 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.

About the Author:

Elizabeth Kostova's engrossing debut novel is the culmination of ten years of research and a lifetime of imagining–since Kostova's girlhood, when her father entertained her with tales of Dracula, she has envisioned the story that would become The Historian.

With her academic spirit and extraordinary talent, she's spun an intricate tale of sprawling mystery and suspense. Kostova graduated from Yale and holds an MFA from the University of Michigan, where she won the Hopwood Award for the Novel-in-Progress.