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Tuesday, January 19, 2010

The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova - Audiobook giveaway

The Swan Thieves
by Elizabeth Kostova

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. In response, Marlowe finds himself going beyond his own legal and ethical boundaries to understand the secret that torments this genius, a journey that will lead him into the lives of the women closest to Robert Oliver and toward a tragedy at the heart of French Impressionism.

Ranging from American museums 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, the losses of history, and the power of art to preserve human hope.

Listen to an Excerpt

Giveaway

I have three copies of this audiobook to giveaway courtesy of Hachette Books. For your first entry (MUST DO THIS ONE FOR ANY OTHER ENTRIES TO COUNT) please tell me your favorite hobby and leave your email address.

For additional entries you can sign up to follow (old followers let me know), Twitter or post it on your blog. Each entry must have it's own comment. (Four entries total.)

This giveaway if for U.S./Canada only - no PO boxes and will end Feb 9th! Good luck!

Thursday, October 8, 2009

ARC Arrival: The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova

The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova

Publisher: Little, Brown & Company (Hachette)

I received this book for review from Hachette Book Group.

A haunting novel of art and obsession.

A mystery spanning continents and centuries.

A love story that crosses the ultimate border.

Robert Oliver, a renowned painter, has attacked a canvas in the National Gallery of Art. What would compel an artist to try to destroy something he values beyond all else? Oliver's only words on the subject: "I did it for her."

Psychiatrist Andrew Marlow prides himself on being able to make even a stone talk, but he gets nowhere with Oliver. Desperate to understand the secret that torments this 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.

Elizabeth Kostova's masterful new novel takes us 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 human hope. (back cover)

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. (back cover)

The Swan Thieves
Publisher/Publication Date: Little, Brown & Company, January 2010
ISBN: 978-0-316-06578-8
576 pages




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