11/17/10

GIVEAWAY! The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova

ANOTHER PERFECT BOOK FOR YOUR READING GROUP!

 

Description

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.

About the Author

Elizabeth Kostova is the author of the international bestseller The Historian. She graduated from Yale and holds an MFA from the University of Michigan, where she won the Hopwood Award for the Novel-in-Progress.

Details

  • Paperback: 592 pages
  • Publisher: Back Bay Books; Reprint edition (November 3, 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 031606579X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0316065795

WANT TO WIN A COPY OF THIS BOOK?

Contest is open to anyone with a US or Canadian mailing addresses (no PO Boxes)

Contest ends on 12.3.10 Winner will be chosen by Random.org on 12.4.10
Winner will have 48 hours to respond to email or a new winner will be chosen.
This giveaway is sponsored by Hachette Book Group and up to three books will be available depending on entries.
Only one winner per household address!

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37 comments:

  1. I cannot wait to read this book! I loved The Historian! As for an interesting fact on her website: she won The Hopwood Award for the Novel-in-Progress from The University of Michigan!

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  2. Yo. Win a Book misses you. I miss you more.

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  3. I really enjoyed The Historian. She seems to have such depth of subject.

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  4. I have been wanting to read this for so long. Thanks for the giveaway.

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  6. Daily entry 11/18. Thanks!
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  8. I'm a new email subscriber and I'd love to read this book!
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    Jen
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  9. Recently found your site. Great!

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  10. Thanks for the contest! Swan Thieves is one of those books I would love to read/listen to but haven't seemed to pick up yet!

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  13. I learned on her website that she won the Hopwood Award for the Novel-In-Progress.

    peacelily_2006(at)yahoo(dot)com

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  14. Tweet:
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  15. I haven't read any of Kostova's work yet, but from what I can see, I'm definitely missing out! Thanks for the giveaway!

    I also follow Forever Young (Adult) as jewelknits!

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  20. Thanks for the giveaway. This book sounds interesting
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  21. Elizabeth Kostova graduated from Yale
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  22. Daily entry 11/26 Thanks for the giveaway.
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  23. Daily entry 11/26. Thanks!
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  28. Daily entry 11/30 Thank you!!
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  30. I loved the Historian and have been looking forward to reading this! I found a very interesting fact on her website that Brad Caleb Kane will be making the Historian a film :)

    Thanks for the giveaway!
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  32. I soooooo want to read this book! If I don't win it here, it's going on my wish list. Thanks for the GREAT giveaway!

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  33. After visiting the author's website, I learned that her first book "The Historian" is going to be made into a movie.

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    Thanks to all who entered.

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