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I feel bad not loving this much-praised book. The writer is good and clever. The content appears to be very well researched. It is about two women experiencing discrimination in the art world in two different capacities because of their gender. It has the now apparently requisite jumping back and forth in time. Yet I feel like Dorothy Boyd in the movie Jerry Maguire, "I love it for the book it almost is" (quote modified for review purposes). And perhaps that is why reviewers love it and it has r
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Solid story about three characters and how their lives intertwine. The first is one of a handful Dutch woman painters in the 17th century. The second is a wealthy, patent lawyer who inherits one of the woman's paintings that has been passed down his family for generations. The last character is an art history student who forges paintings on the side.
I really enjoyed this story and found it to be unique in many ways. However, I didn't like where the book headed after the first half and how it en ...more
I really enjoyed this story and found it to be unique in many ways. However, I didn't like where the book headed after the first half and how it en ...more
Really enjoyed the storyline. Characters were interesting and likeable yet despicable at the same time.
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