The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova
 When I saw him waiting for me in his
good summer clothes…I felt as always both
his reality and the thin air that would one day replace him. Quote from The Swan Thieves, by Elizabeth Kostova
Stunning Joanna Ponder
An enchanting story and a deeply human experience Mary F. Burns, Historical Novel Society
The Swan Thieves
Psychiatrist Andrew Marlowe has a perfectly ordered life - solitary, perhaps, but full of devotion to his profession and the painting hobby he loves. This order is destroyed when renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient. Desperate to understand the secret that torments this genius, Marlowe 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 nineteenth century to the late twentieth, from young love to last love. The Swan Thieves is a story of obsession, history's losses, and the power of art to preserve hope.
About the Author
Elizabeth Kostova graduated from Yale and holds an MFA from the University of Michigan, where she won the Hopwood Award for the Novel-in-Progress for The Historian.
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