The swan thieves : a novel
Title:
The swan thieves : a novel
Author:
Kostova, Elizabeth
ISBN:
9780316065788
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
New York [etc.] : Little, Brown and Co., 2010
Physical Description:
564 p. ; 24 cm
General Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Abstract:
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.
Subject:
| Psychiatrists -- Fiction |
| Art appreciation -- Fiction |
| Painters -- Fiction |
| Psychological fiction |
Summary:
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.