By Joe Donahue
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Albany, NY – Elizabeth Kostova's debut novel, The Historian, explored the legend of Dracula. Her second novel, The Swan Thieves is now out and focuses on French Impressionism.
In the novel - Psychiatrist Andrew Marlowe, devoted to his profession and the painting hobby he loves, has a solitary but ordered life. When renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient, Marlow finds that order destroyed. Desperate to understand the secret that torments the genius, he embarks on a journey that leads him into the lives of the women closest to Oliver and a tragedy at the heart of French Impressionism.