The swan thieves
Subtitle: a novel
By: Elizabeth Kostova
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Little, Brown and Co.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 564
ISBN-13: 9780316065788; 9780316072380
Subjects: Painters; Psychiatrists; Art appreciation; Fiction
Description: Psychiatrist Andrew Marlowe, 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.