{"product_id":"2940169485189","title":"The Last Painting of Sara de Vos: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eA masterful new story charts the circuitous course of the sole surviving work of a female Dutch painter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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 audio's done.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his award-winning earlier novels, Dominic Smith demonstrated a gift for coaxing the past to life. Now, in \u003ci\u003eThe Last Painting of Sara de Vos\u003c\/i\u003e, he deftly 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 art historian who painted a forgery of it in her youth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1631, Sara de Vos is admitted as a master painter to the Guild of St. Luke's in Holland, the first woman to be so recognized. Three hundred years later, only one work attributed to de Vos is known to remain amp;mdash; a haunting winter scene, At the Edge of a Wood, which hangs over the 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 exhibit of female Dutch painters, and both versions threaten to arrive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the three threads intersect, \u003ci\u003eThe Last Painting of Sara de Vos\u003c\/i\u003e mesmerizes while it grapples with the demands of the artistic life, showing how the deceits of the past can forge the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis audio-book includes a reading group guide read by the author.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Macmillan Audio production.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47097973473520,"sku":"2940169485189","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169485189_p0.jpg?v=1763683961","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169485189","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}