The Swan Thieves

A Novel

Little, Brown (Feb 12, 2010)

9780316065788

| Hardcover

560 pages | 163 x 229 mm | English

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Dewey 813

LC Classification PS3611.O74927 .S93 2009

LC Control No. 2009031954

Genre

Psychological Fiction

Subject

Art/ Appreciation/ Fiction
Painters
Painters/ Fiction
Psychiatrists/ Fiction
Psychological Fiction

Plot

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.