{"product_id":"1250118328-the_last_painting_of_sara_de_vos","title":"The Last Painting of Sara De Vos","description":"\n\n\u003cp\u003eAmsterdam, 1631: Sara de Vos becomes the first woman to be admitted as a master painter to the city’s Guild of St. Luke. Though women do not paint landscapes (they are generally restricted to indoor subjects), a wintry outdoor scene haunts Sara: She cannot shake the image of a young girl from a nearby village, standing alone beside a silver birch at dusk, staring out at a group of skaters on the frozen river below. Defying the expectations of her time, she decides to paint it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNew York City, 1957: The only known surviving work of Sara de Vos,\u003ci\u003e At the Edge of a Wood\u003c\/i\u003e, hangs in the bedroom of a wealthy Manhattan lawyer, Marty de Groot, a descendant of the original owner. It is a beautiful but comfortless landscape. The lawyer’s marriage is prominent but comfortless, too. When a struggling art history grad student, Ellie Shipley, agrees to forge the painting for a dubious art dealer, she finds herself entangled with its owner in ways no one could predict.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSydney, 2000: Now a celebrated art historian and curator, Ellie Shipley is mounting an exhibition in her field of specialization: female painters of the Dutch Golden Age. When it becomes apparent that both the original \u003ci\u003eAt the Edge of a Wood \u003c\/i\u003eand her forgery are en route to her museum, the life she has carefully constructed threatens to unravel entirely and irrevocably.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCategories:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLiterature \u0026amp; Fiction\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHistorical Fiction\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\u003cli class=\"category-tree\"\u003eGeneral\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Used - Very Good","offer_id":47619667755198,"sku":"1250118328-3","price":14.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0640\/9689\/5166\/files\/912kZ8iE6IL.jpg?v=1781097852","url":"https:\/\/shop.sustainablebooks.com\/products\/1250118328-the_last_painting_of_sara_de_vos","provider":"Sustainable Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}