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Tulip fever
Deborah Moggach
QPD 1999. Mjuk pärm 259 sidor. Illustrerad med bilder i färg (bl.a. Vermeer). Mycket gott skick.
A novel of art and illusion, doomed love and a tulip bulb...
Amsterdam in the 1630s: considered by its inhabitants to be the wealthiest city in the world. For do they not possess the richness of art, literature, music and the refinement of society, in addition to commercial wealth?
The painters of the time are busy: the city's inhabitants intend to guarantee their immortality with gold. Sitting for such a portrait is Sophia Sandvoort, beside her elderly husband Cornelis. They are surrounded by objects showing her husband's piety, yet he has not been able to resist including a tulip, its petals full and on the point of dropping. For Cornelis, like many of his fellow Dutchmen, has made money from the speculation on this exotic flower and its bulbs.
As the painter, Jan van Loos, starts to capture Sophia's likeness on his canvas so a slow passion begins to burn. And as the execution of the painting unfolds, so a slow dance is begun between the household's inhabitants. Ambitions, desires and dreams breed a grand deception, and as the lies multiply, events move towards a thrilling and tragic climax.
Deborah Moggach is the author of twelve previous novels and two collections of short stories. Her TV screenplays include Stolen, the prize- winning Goggle-Eyes and Seesaw. Her most recent novel, Close Relations, was a highly acclaimed BBC drama serial for which she wrote the screenplay. She lives in north London.
PAINTING: Detail from 'A Lady Writing by Johannes Vermeer
(Gift of Harry Waldron Havemeyer and Horace Havemeyer Jr., in memory
of their father, Horace Havemeyer,
Deborah Moggach
QPD 1999. Mjuk pärm 259 sidor. Illustrerad med bilder i färg (bl.a. Vermeer). Mycket gott skick.
A novel of art and illusion, doomed love and a tulip bulb...
Amsterdam in the 1630s: considered by its inhabitants to be the wealthiest city in the world. For do they not possess the richness of art, literature, music and the refinement of society, in addition to commercial wealth?
The painters of the time are busy: the city's inhabitants intend to guarantee their immortality with gold. Sitting for such a portrait is Sophia Sandvoort, beside her elderly husband Cornelis. They are surrounded by objects showing her husband's piety, yet he has not been able to resist including a tulip, its petals full and on the point of dropping. For Cornelis, like many of his fellow Dutchmen, has made money from the speculation on this exotic flower and its bulbs.
As the painter, Jan van Loos, starts to capture Sophia's likeness on his canvas so a slow passion begins to burn. And as the execution of the painting unfolds, so a slow dance is begun between the household's inhabitants. Ambitions, desires and dreams breed a grand deception, and as the lies multiply, events move towards a thrilling and tragic climax.
Deborah Moggach is the author of twelve previous novels and two collections of short stories. Her TV screenplays include Stolen, the prize- winning Goggle-Eyes and Seesaw. Her most recent novel, Close Relations, was a highly acclaimed BBC drama serial for which she wrote the screenplay. She lives in north London.
PAINTING: Detail from 'A Lady Writing by Johannes Vermeer
(Gift of Harry Waldron Havemeyer and Horace Havemeyer Jr., in memory
of their father, Horace Havemeyer,
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Tulip fever, Deborah Moggach
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