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HTML:A sensual tale of art, lust, and deception—now a major motion picture In 1630s Amsterdam, tulipomania has seized the populace. Everywhere men are seduced by the fantastic exotic flower. But for wealthy merchant Cornelis Sandvoort, it is his young and beautiful wife, Sophia, who stirs his soul. She is the prize he desires, the woman he hopes will bring him the joy that not even his considerable fortune can buy. Cornelis yearns for an heir, but so far he and Sophia have failed to produce one. In a bid for immortality, he commissions a portrait of them both by the talented young painter Jan van Loos. But as Van Loos begins to capture Sophia's likeness on canvas, a slow passion begins to burn between the beautiful young wife and the talented artist. As the portrait unfolds, so a slow dance is begun among the household’s inhabitants. Ambitions, desires, and dreams breed a grand deception—and as the lies multiply, events move toward a thrilling and tragic climax. In this richly imagined international bestseller, Deborah Moggach has created the rarest of novels—a lush, lyrical work of fiction that is also compulsively readable. Seldom has a novel so vividly evoked a time, a place, and a passion. Praise for Tulip Fever
“Sumptuous prose . . . reads like a thriller.”—The New York Times Book Review
“An artful novel in every sense of the word . . . deftly evokes seventeenth-century Amsterdam’s vibrant atmosphere.”—Los Angeles Times
“Need a brief escape into a beautiful and faraway world? Deborah Moggach’s wonderful Tulip Fever can offer you that.”—New York Post
“Taut with suspense and unexpected revelations.”—Entertainment Weekly
“Elegantly absorbing.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer.… (más)
Quick read for me and my first book of 2008! [return][return]Short chapters and a small cast make for an interesting, well paced story. Addition of photos of paintings from the period allow the reader to visualise the type of paintings being described in the book
Quick read for me and my first book of 2008! [return][return]Short chapters and a small cast make for an interesting, well paced story. Addition of photos of paintings from the period allow the reader to visualise the type of paintings being described in the book
Stunning book that, in it's relatively small number of pages includes history, natural and perceived beauty, and, most telling, an unveiling of human desire and frailties. ( )
In the 1630's Amsterdam, tulipomania has seized the public. Cornelis Sandvort and his beautiful young wife Sophia are yearning for a baby. When the maid becomes pregnant out of wed lock, She and Sophia devise a plan so that Sophia can run away with her lover, Jan Van Loos an artist who painted her portrait. Dreams breed a grand deception and the plan backfires when an ignorant servant eats the tulip bulb, mistaking it for an onion. Sophia throws her cape in the canal and appears to have drowned. However, at the end Jans thinks he sees her coming out of a convent. ( )
The name makes one think it would be tulips-wrong! The tags makes one think it would be about art-wrong! This was a love story, oft times bordering on the pornographic that takes place in Holland during the 1600's. It wasn't even a good story! 290 pages ( )
It is the people who live on top, restfully and staidly underneath it is their shadows which move...I should not wonder if the surface of the grachts still reflected the shadows of people from bygone centuries, men in broad ruffs and women in mob caps...The towns appear to be standing, not on the earth, but on their own reflections; these gighly respectable streets appear to emerge from from bottomless depths of dreams...Karel Capek, Letters from Holland, 1933.
Yes, I know well the world of poverty and ugliness, but I painted the skin, the glittering surface, the appearance of things: the silky ladies, and gentlemen in irreproachable black. I admired how fiercely the fought for a life slightly longer than the one for which they were destined. They protected themselves with fashion, tailors' accessories, a fancy ruffle, ingenious cuffs...any detail that would allow them to last a little longer before they - and we as well - are engulfed by the black background - S. Herbert, Still Life With a Bridle Our task is not to solve enigmas, but to be aware of them, to bow our heas before them and also to prepare the eyes for never-ending delight and wonder. If you absolutley require discoveries, hoever, I will tell you that I am proud to have succeeded in combining a certain particularly intensive cobalt with a luminous lemonlike yellow, as well as recording the reflection of southern light that strikes thick glass on to a grey wall...Allows us to continue our archaic procedure, to tell the world words of reconiliation and to speak of joy from recovered harmony, of the eternal desire for reciprocated love. - Letter attributed to Jan Vermeer
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Fiction.
Literature.
Romance.
Historical Fiction.
HTML:A sensual tale of art, lust, and deception—now a major motion picture In 1630s Amsterdam, tulipomania has seized the populace. Everywhere men are seduced by the fantastic exotic flower. But for wealthy merchant Cornelis Sandvoort, it is his young and beautiful wife, Sophia, who stirs his soul. She is the prize he desires, the woman he hopes will bring him the joy that not even his considerable fortune can buy. Cornelis yearns for an heir, but so far he and Sophia have failed to produce one. In a bid for immortality, he commissions a portrait of them both by the talented young painter Jan van Loos. But as Van Loos begins to capture Sophia's likeness on canvas, a slow passion begins to burn between the beautiful young wife and the talented artist. As the portrait unfolds, so a slow dance is begun among the household’s inhabitants. Ambitions, desires, and dreams breed a grand deception—and as the lies multiply, events move toward a thrilling and tragic climax. In this richly imagined international bestseller, Deborah Moggach has created the rarest of novels—a lush, lyrical work of fiction that is also compulsively readable. Seldom has a novel so vividly evoked a time, a place, and a passion. Praise for Tulip Fever
“Sumptuous prose . . . reads like a thriller.”—The New York Times Book Review
“An artful novel in every sense of the word . . . deftly evokes seventeenth-century Amsterdam’s vibrant atmosphere.”—Los Angeles Times
“Need a brief escape into a beautiful and faraway world? Deborah Moggach’s wonderful Tulip Fever can offer you that.”—New York Post
“Taut with suspense and unexpected revelations.”—Entertainment Weekly
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