By: Alyson Richman
A novel that explores the last 70 days of Vincent Van Gogh's life, as seen through the eyes of his final muse, Marguerite Gachet.
Genre: Fiction | Historical
Berkley
October 1, 2006
On Sale: October 3, 2006
Featuring: Vincent Van Gogh; Marguerite Gachet
320 pages
ISBN: 042521267X
EAN: 9780425212677
Paperback
Book Summary
A love story that explores the bonds between patient and doctor, painter and muse.
Summer, 1890.
Van Gogh arrives at Auvers-sur-Oise, a bucolic French
village that lures city artists to the country. It is here
that twenty-year-old Marguerite Gachet has grown up,
attending to her father and brother ever since her mother's
death. And it is here that Vincent Van Gogh will spend his
last summer, under the care of Doctor Gachet-homeopathic
doctor, dilettante painter, and collector. In these last
days of his life, Van Gogh will create over 70 paintings,
two of them portraits of Marguerite Gachet. But little does
he know that, while capturing Marguerite and her garden on
canvas, he will also capture her heart.
Both a love story and historical novel, The Last Van Gogh recreates the final months of Vincent's life-and the tragic relationship between a young girl brimming with hope and an artist teetering on despair.