Background
Kostova, Elizabeth was born on December 26, 1964 in New London, Connecticut, United States.
(The Swan Thieves is a 2010 novel by American author Eliza...)
The Swan Thieves is a 2010 novel by American author Elizabeth Kostova. The "old painter" described in the book before the first chapter is Alfred Sisley. Beatrice de Clerval is not based on a single real artist, but Kostova was influenced in developing her life by the life of Berthe Morisot. Entertainment Weekly gave the book a "C" grade.3 The Washington Post said, "Kostova's new book, set partly in Washington, tells a rather simple story, and its characters, although they sometimes insist otherwise, don't change radically over time. (All are painters, and they're not much different, in interest or in outlook, from one another.)"
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(Andrew Marlow, a psychiatrist, has a perfectly ordered li...)
Andrew Marlow, a psychiatrist, 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 the renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes Marlow's patient. When Oliver refuses to talk or cooperate, Marlow finds himself going beyond his own legal and ethical boundaries to understand the secret that torments this silent 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. Moving 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.
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(Psychiatrist Andrew Marlow, devoted to his profession and...)
Psychiatrist Andrew Marlow, 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. Kostova's masterful new novel travels from American cities to the coast of Normandy, from the late 19th century to the late 20th, 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
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Kostova, Elizabeth was born on December 26, 1964 in New London, Connecticut, United States.
Bachelor in British Studies, Yale University, New Haven. Master of Fine Arts, University Michigan, 2004.
(Andrew Marlow, a psychiatrist, has a perfectly ordered li...)
(Psychiatrist Andrew Marlow, devoted to his profession and...)
(The Swan Thieves is a 2010 novel by American author Eliza...)
Founder, member management bd Elizabeth Kostova Foundation Creative Writing, Bulgaria, since 2007.
Married Georgi Kostova, 1990.