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THE SWAN THIEVES
By: Elizabeth Kostova

Little Brown and Company
January 2010
On Sale: January 12, 2010
Featuring: Andrew Marlowe; Robert Oliver
576 pages
ISBN: 0316065781
EAN: 9780316065788
Hardcover
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Fiction

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.

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.

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