The Last Painting of Sara de Vos (39 page)

 

A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dominic Smith
grew up in Australia and now lives in Austin, Texas. He's the author of three other novels,
Bright and Distant Shores, The Beautiful Miscellaneous
, and
The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre
. His short fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in
The Atlantic, Texas Monthly,
and the
Chicago Tribune'
s Printers Row Journal, among other publications. He is the recipient of a new works grant from the Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts, a Dobie Paisano Fellowship, and a Michener Fellowship. He teaches writing in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. For more information, visit his website,
www.dominicsmith.net
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Contents

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Dedication

Author's Note

Part I

Upper East Side (November 1957)

Amsterdam/Berckhey (Spring 1635)

Brooklyn (November 1957)

Amsterdam (Winter 1636)

Upper East Side (May 1958)

Sydney (July 2000)

Part II

Amsterdam (Spring 1637)

New Jersey (August 1958)

Brooklyn (August 1958)

En Route to Sydney (August 2000)

Manhattan (September 1958)

Amsterdam (May 1637)

Sydney (August 2000)

Manhattan (September 1958)

Leaving Amsterdam (Spring 1637)

Sydney (August 2000)

Manhattan (September 1958)

Heemstede (Summer 1637)

Manhattan (October 1958)

Sydney (August 2000)

Heemstede (Summer 1637)

Manhattan (October 1958)

Sydney (August 2000)

Heemstede (Winter 1649/Summer 2000)

Also by Dominic Smith

Acknowledgments

A Note About the Author

Copyright

 

Sarah Crichton Books

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

18 West 18th Street, New York 10011

Copyright © 2016 by Dominic Smith

All rights reserved

First edition, 2016

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Smith, Dominic, 1971–

       The last painting of Sara De Vos: a novel / Dominic Smith. — first edition.

          pages cm

       ISBN 978-0-374-10668-3 (hardback) — ISBN 978-0-374-71404-8 (e-book)

       1. Baalbergen, Sarah van, 1607– approximately 1638—Fiction. 2. Women artists—Netherlands—Fiction. 3. Painting, Dutch—17th century—Fiction. 4. Art—Forgeries—Fiction. 5. Art historians—Fiction. I. Title.

 

PS3619.M5815 L38 2016

813'.6—dc23

2015033152

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