The Last Van Gogh by Alyson Richman

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.

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