Tulip Fever - Brossura

Moggach, Deborah

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0099283050 ISBN 13: 9780099283058

Casa editrice: Vintage, 2000

Riassunto

Amsterdam in the 1630s: blessed by not only commecial wealth, but also the richness of art, literature and music. Sophia Sandvoort's elderly husband Cornelis has commissioned a portrait of them both, including in it a voluptuous, striking tulip. For Cornelis, like many of his fellow Dutchmen, has made money from the precarious but rampant speculation on this exotic new flower and its bulbs which grips Holland. But between the young bride Sophia and the painter, Jan Van Loos, burns a fierce attraction. With her customary skill at capturing men and women's emotions and fears, Moggach unfolds a story of sexual betrayal and infidelity. A grand deception is conceived leading events towards a tragic climax. . . From one of our foremost contemporary writers comes her most accomplished novel to date. An exquisitely crafted novel of art and illusion, doomed love and a tulip bulb.

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Recensione:

"A story of love, deceit, changelings, and mistaken identity worthy of a Restoration dramatist" (Daily Mail)

"A sumptuous and enthralling novel about art, love, illusion and money...with the denouement of a classic" (The Times)

"A byzantine plot that hurtles towards disaster, while retaining the polished veneer of a Dutch interior" (Harpers & Queen)

"Sensuous and masterly...a gorgeous novel" (Mail on Sunday)

"Clever, spry and sad in equal measure...a pacy plot whose twists and shifts of viewpoint make for much anxious page-turning" (Daily Telegraph)

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Book by Deborah Moggach

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• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0099283050
• ISBN 13: 9780099283058
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 272