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The Last Van Gogh

9780425212677

The Last Van Gogh

  • ISBN 13:

    9780425212677

  • ISBN 10:

    042521267X

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 10/03/2006
  • Publisher: Berkley Pub Group
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Summary

A love story that explores the bonds between patient and doctor, painter and muse. Summer, 1890. Van Gogh arrives at Auvers-sur-Oise, a bucolic French village that lures city artists to the country. It is here that twenty-year-old Marguerite Gachet has grown up, attending to her father and brother ever since her mother's death. And it is here that Vincent Van Gogh will spend his last summer, under the care of Doctor Gachet-homeopathic doctor, dilettante painter, and collector. In these last days of his life, Van Gogh will create over 70 paintings, two of them portraits of Marguerite Gachet. But little does he know that, while capturing Marguerite and her garden on canvas, he will also capture her heart. Both a love story and historical novel, The Last Van Goghrecreates the final months of Vincent's life-and the tragic relationship between a young girl brimming with hope and an artist teetering on despair.

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