The swan thieves - BookWyrm

564 pages

English language

Published Feb. 4, 2009 by Little, Brown and Co..

ISBN:: 978-0-316-06578-8
OCLC Number:: 429227932

(6 reviews)

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.

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samanthaleigh15 reviewed The swan thieves by Elizabeth Kostova

Review of 'The swan thieves' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

I read some pretty scathing reviews of this book, and while I didn't enjoy it as much as The Historian, I thought the story was compelling, though at times a little choppy. I also enjoyed how the author suggests things without tying all the threads up too neatly for the reader. Kostova understands that paintings never give up all their secrets to the same person.