And that's especially true when the author switches back and forth between time and place and character. However, author Dominick Smith has done a superb job of juggling in his new novel, "The Last Painting of Sara de Vos". The novel, set in New York City in , Amsterdam/Haarlem in , and Sydney/New York in /5(K). · THE LAST PAINTING OF SARA DE VOS By Dominic Smith pp. Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus Giroux. $ Manhattan, Marty de Groot and his wife, Rachel, host a $a-plate dinner to Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins. · The Last Painting of Sara De Vos by Dominic Smith is a novel about two people whose lives become entwined due to their mutual obsession with a 17th century Dutch artist, Sara De Vos. Marty de Groot owns De Vos’s painting, and when it’s stolen and replaced by a /5.
However, author Dominick Smith has done a superb job of juggling in his new novel, "The Last Painting of Sara de Vos". The novel, set in New York City in , Amsterdam/Haarlem in , and Sydney/New York in The varying "faces" and places and times all circle around a painting created by a female Dutch artist named Sara de Vos whose. Dominic Smith draws on his Australian background and interest in 17th century Dutch paintings to create "The Last Painting of Sara de Vos," a novel that spans centuries. The Last Painting of Sara de Vos is a story told in layers of light. From afar, this novel is so beautiful, the prose so clear and vivid, that it seems effortless; on closer examination, one sees the rich thematic palette Dominic Smith has used.
"In The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, Dominic Smith moves effortlessly between his seventeenth century artist and those who fall under the spell of her work more than three hundred years later. Smith is a writer of huge gifts and his descriptions of the painting and of those who fall in love with it (and with each other) are rendered with wondrous intelligence and keen wit. In The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, Dominic Smith moves effortlessly between his seventeenth century artist and those who fall under the spell of her work more than three hundred years later. Smith is a writer of huge gifts and his descriptions of the painting and of those who fall in love with it, (and with each other) are rendered with wondrous intelligence and keen wit. And that's especially true when the author switches back and forth between time and place and character. However, author Dominick Smith has done a superb job of juggling in his new novel, "The Last Painting of Sara de Vos". The novel, set in New York City in , Amsterdam/Haarlem in , and Sydney/New York in
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