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Pub Date: 2007-05-29 Pages: 288 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins US Driving home at dusk. Claire Andrews. an art history professor at a prestigious New England university. accidentally strikes and kills a boy who darts into the path of her car. She is immediately cleared of blame but is nonetheless left psychologically devastated. Haunted by the accidents consequences. Claire also wrestles with her study of one of Vincent van Goghs final paintings. Crows over the Wheatfield. and its mysterious relationship to the great artists untimely death. Claire has been writing the definitive book on the connection between the artists late paintings and his deteriorating mental condition before his suicide. She has uncovered evidence that the painters death may not have been as it seems and that someone close to van Gogh may have pushed the fragile painter to take his own life...
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Driving home at dusk, Claire Andrews, an art history professor at a prestigious New England university, accidentally strikes and kills a boy. Though immediately cleared of blame, she is nonetheless left psychologically devastated and haunted by the accident's consequences. Meanwhile Claire wrestles with her study of Vincent van Gogh's Crows over the Wheatfield and the painting's mysterious relationship to its creator's untimely death. As worrisome parallels between the suicidal artist's life and her own begin to emerge, she'll have to reconcile herself to her past to become whole again . . . or surrender to the darkness that is enveloping her.
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"An intricate and suspenseful narrative of love and art. . . . A remarkably absorbing and intelligent novel.--Margot Livesey
An intricate and suspenseful narrative of love and art. . . . A remarkably absorbing and intelligent novel.--Margot Livesey"
[A] brilliant exploration of the nature of art, accident, and truth. --Sigrid Nunez, author of "The Last of Her Kind""
"[A] brilliant exploration of the nature of art, accident, and truth."--Sigrid Nunez, author of The Last of Her Kind
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- PublisherHarper Perennial
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0060782331
- ISBN 13 9780060782337
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages288
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