Edward Dolnick Hardcover, $26.99 HarperCollins June 2008 368 pages This is a fantastic non-fiction book subtitled A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century. Vermeer? Nazis? How could I pass this up!? Dolnick is a master storyteller, particularly when it comes to true crime. He has the rare [...]
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Susan Vreeland Paperback, $11.00 Penguin October 2000 242 pages The protagonist of this unusual novel is not a person but a painting–a long-lost Vermeer painting, no less. Originally written as separate short stories, each chapter in the book explores the painting’s whereabouts in a different time period–from its current place of honor in a professor’s [...]
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Tracy Chevalier Paperback, $14.00 Plume January 2001 233 pages Tracy Chevalier is known as a first-class historical novelist, and this book is the reason why. Her impecable research recreates the world of 17th-century Holland and her dazzling imagination produces the young girl Griet, a maid in Johannes Vermeer’s household. Chevalier plants the fictional Griet as [...]
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