
The Last Painting of Sara de Vos
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Narrated by:
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Edoardo Ballerini
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By:
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Dominic Smith
About this listen
This is what we long for: the profound pleasure of being swept into vivid new worlds, worlds peopled by characters so intriguing and real that we can't shake them, even long after the story's told.
In this extraordinary audiobook, The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, Australian writer Dominic Smith brilliantly bridges the historical and the contemporary, tracking a collision course between a rare landscape by a female Dutch painter of the Golden Age, an inheritor of the work in 1950s Manhattan, and a celebrated Australian art historian who painted a forgery of it in her youth.
In 1631, Sara de Vos is admitted to the Guild of St. Luke in Holland as a master painter, the first woman to be so honoured. 300 years later, only one work attributed to de Vos is known to remain - a haunting winter scene, At the Edge of a Wood, which hangs over the Manhattan bed of a wealthy descendant of the original owner.
An Australian grad student, Ellie Shipley, struggling to stay afloat in New York, agrees to paint a forgery of the landscape, a decision that will haunt her. Because now, half a century later, she's curating an exhibition of female Dutch painters, and both versions threaten to arrive.
As the three threads intersect with increasing and exquisite suspense, The Last Painting of Sara de Vos mesmerises while it grapples with the demands of the artistic life, showing how the deceits of the past can forge the present.
©2016 Dominic Smith (P)2016 Macmillan Audio USAGreat read...
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Intriguing book
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Let down by narrator
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The worst Australian accents ever
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I will wander around for the next few hours still living the tale.
It is a wonderful way to absorb a novel.
Spellbound
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Plus, He can't pronounce winding or rifling or Balmain.
Unfortunate reader
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Reader
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Intriguing
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Great story poorly read
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Lovely story- mistaken accent.
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