ROBERT OLIVER, A RENOWNED PAINTER,has brutally attacked acanvas in the National Gallery of Art. From the confines of his hospital room,Oliver maintains a stubborn silence,'offering only the briefest explanation be-fore he stops speaking altogether: "I did it for her."
But who is she? Andrew Marlow, a psychiatrist, prides himself on his abilityto make even a stone talk, but he gets nowhere with Oliver. Driven at first by pro-fessional curiosity, and then by a determination that disrupts his ordered, carefulworld, Marlow embarks on an unconventional pursuit of the answers his patientwon't provide, and on a journey into the lives of the women Oliver left behind.
Richly told, beautifully imagined, The Swan Thieves takes us across cen-turies, from American cities to the coast of Normandy, from young love to lastlove. Elizabeth Kostova deftly explores the painter's universe--passion, creativity,secrets, madness and, with the gift for storytelling that made The Historianan international sensation, conjures a world that lingers long after the final pagehas turned. |
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