The Swan Thieves-- Book Review

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. ( Good Reads.com)

This book comes out Jan 10,2010 and $ 26.99

I had not read The Historian by this author or anything else.

I had a tough getting into the book and I love the attention to details. I Love ART and a good Book . Its slow moving and I understand that its setting up the more complex details.

It has different point of views of Marlow, Kate and Mary. There is also some letters from the past of 1895

Its a interesting story of what a drives a person mad and the lengths a person does to solve it. It was very slow moving and finally starting getting better toward the end. But all the details was a bit much at times. This was the longest it has taken me to read a book in a while.

The characters of Kate and Mary were likable. I couldn't relate to Marlow at all. I did notice that Marlow life seemed to be mirroring the 1897 version.

If you read her other book , then read this one.

I give this a 3

Thanks to Little Brown for the book to review and this is honest review of the book.