The Swan Thieves
International bestselling author
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781847442406 (1847442404)
Pages no: 565
Edition language: English
This is a difficult book to review for me. The Historian was one of my favorites, and I was looking forward to this second offering from Kostova. I thought the writing in this book as beautiful, and I really love the author's ability to develop characters. My issue with this novel is that the stor...
The Swan Thieves is a novel supposedly modelled on Conrad's Lord Jim, following psychiatrist Andrew Marlow as he attempts to cure his patient Robert Oliver, a painter obsessed with one unknown woman, painting her over and over again with disturbing realism.I read The Swan Thieves because I had alrea...
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Andrew Marlow, by profession a psychiatrist who specializes in mental disorders in creative people, gets a new patient - acclaimed artist Robert Oliver, who has been arrested for attempting to slash a painting in the National Gallery. Other than a few cursory sentences on admission, Robert chooses ...
Loved The Historian. Didn't love The Swan Thieves. Kostova is an intelligent writer, but this book lives and dies on characterization and first person narrative, and I didn't feel like the various narrators' voices were distinct enough. They all sounded like Kostova.In addition, the level of deta...
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