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The Last Painting of Sara De Vos: A Novel

The Last Painting of Sara De Vos: A Novel Hardcover - 2016

by Smith, Dominic

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New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Sarah Crichton Books, 2016. 290 pages; 24 cm. SIGNED by the author on a literary society bookplate pasted onto the front free endpaper. A fine copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "In 1631, Sara de Vos is admitted as a master painter to the Guild of St. Luke's in Holland, the first woman to be so recognized. Three hundred years later, only one work attributed to de Vos is known to remain--a haunting winter scene, At the Edge of a Wood, which hangs over the bed of a wealthy descendant of the original owner. An Australian grad student, Ellie Shipley, struggling to stay afloat in New York, agrees to paint a forgery of the landscape, a decision that will haunt her. Because now, half a century later, she's curating an exhibit of female Dutch painters, and both versions threaten to arrive. As the three threads intersect, The Last Painting of Sara de Vos mesmerizes while it grapples with the demands of the artistic life, showing how the deceits of the past can forge the present." - Publisher.. SIGNED. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.
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  • Title The Last Painting of Sara De Vos: A Novel
  • Author Smith, Dominic
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Fine
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Sarah Crichton Books, New York
  • Date 2016
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 090332
  • ISBN 9780374106683 / 0374106681
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.3 in (23.11 x 16.00 x 3.30 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Painting, Dutch - 17th century
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2015033152
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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About the author

Dominic Smith grew up in Australia and now lives in Austin, Texas. He's the author of three other novels: Bright and Distant Shores, The Beautiful Miscellaneous, and The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre. His short fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in The Atlantic, Texas Monthly, and the Chicago Tribune's Printers Row Journal, among other publications. He is the recipient of a new works grant from the Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts, a Dobie Paisano Fellowship, and a Michener Fellowship. He teaches writing in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.