There's an art to writing historical novels

From : The Globle And Mail


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Elizabeth Kostova's novel is compelling and well written, but ill-conceived in places.

The U.S. novelist Elizabeth Kostova has a winning way with description. Here is what she writes about the obsessive artist Robert Oliver, the main figure in her second novel, The Swan Thieves: “I remembered now those gestures of hand and arm, and the curling edges of his mouth, the oddly sculpted face, the charm that was charming because there was no awareness behind it, as if he were simply renting his body and it had turned out to be a good one, although he treated it with a renter's lack of caring.”

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