![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Vividly detailed, acutely sensitive to stratifications of gender and class, it’s fiction that keeps you up at night - first because you’re barreling through the book, then because you’ve slowed your pace to a crawl, savoring the suspense.” - Boston GlobeĪ New York Times Book Review Editor's ChoiceĪ RARE SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY PAINTING LINKS THREE LIVES, ON THREE CONTINENTS, OVER THREE CENTURIES IN THE LAST PAINTING OF SARA DE VOS, AN EXHILARATING NEW NOVEL FROM DOMINIC SMITH.Īmsterdam, 1631: Sara de Vos becomes the first woman to be admitted as a master painter to the city’s Guild of St. “Written in prose so clear that we absorb its images as if by mind meld, “The Last Painting” is gorgeous storytelling: wry, playful, and utterly alive, with an almost tactile awareness of the emotional contours of the human heart. ![]()
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