The Last Painting of Sara de Vos

Dominic Smith (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

368 Seiten

2016
Allen & Unwin (Verlag)
978-1-925266-40-5 (ISBN)

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In the 1600s Sara de Vos, a mother and painter, loses her young daughter suddenly to illness. In her grief, she secretly begins painting a dark landscape of a girl watching an ice skater from the edge of a wood. In 1950s New York, Martijn de Groot has At the Edge of a Wood hanging above his bed. Though it is a dark, peculiar painting, by a scarcely known female painter of the Golden Age, he holds the painting dear and when it is stolen, he is bereft. In Brooklyn, struggling art student Ellie Shipley accepts a commission to paint an intricate forgery of de Vos' sole surviving work, not realising that her decision will come to haunt her successful academic career. Gorgeously written, brilliantly conceived and executed, filled with tension and revelation, The Last Painting of Sara de Vos is a superb novel, one of those rare books that stops time as you read it, and one that you will want to keep revisiting for the sheer pleasure of watching a master at work.

Dominic Smith holds an MFA from the University of Texas, Austin. His short fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and various other awards. His writing has appeared in numerous publications, such as The Atlantic Monthly. He is the author of three previous novels: The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre, The Beautiful Miscellaneous and Bright and Distant Shores. More information can be found on his website: www.dominicsmith.net

Erscheint lt. Verlag	5.5.2016
Verlagsort	St Leonards
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Historische Romane
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
Schlagworte	Englisch; Romane/Erzählungen
ISBN-10	1-925266-40-0 / 1925266400
ISBN-13	978-1-925266-40-5 / 9781925266405
Zustand	Neuware