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The Swan Thieves
by KOSTOVA, Elizabeth
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0316065781
- ISBN 13
- 9780316065788
- Seller
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Asheville, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Asheville / New York: The Captain's Bookshelf / Little, Brown & Co, 2009. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. 6.25 x 9.5 in. 564 pp. Fine in original cloth boards and fine pictorial paper-covered slipcase. Signed on front colophon by Kostova. This specially bound edition, signed and number 84/180, was published by the Captain's Bookshelf in Asheville North Carolina and includes laid-in ephemera from The Swan Thieves' publication tour.
Synopsis
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Bagatelle Books, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6418
- Title
- The Swan Thieves
- Author
- KOSTOVA, Elizabeth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0316065781
- ISBN 13
- 9780316065788
- Publisher
- The Captain's Bookshelf / Little, Brown & Co
- Place of Publication
- Asheville / New York
- Date Published
- 2009
- LCCN
- 2009031954
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Bagatelle Books, IOBA
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Asheville, North Carolina
About Bagatelle Books, IOBA
We are a brick-and-mortar independent bookstore in West Asheville, North Carolina.
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