The Discovery of Light
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Synopsis:
David Reid, an American mystery writer, travels to London to meet Kate, the editor who has bought his latest manuscript. He is captivated by this cool English beauty, and she returns to his Massachusetts home as his wife, There they begin what seems a perfect life together, until Kate mysteriously announces that she is leaving him.
Shortly after her departure, David learns that Kate has been killed by a subway train in New York. Was it suicide? An accident? Murder? Was Kate leaving him for another man, or was she on her way back to him? Searching for the truth, David becomes entangled in a web of deception and betrayal and must face the difficult question: How much do we really know about those we love? It's when he discovers a treasured volume of Vermeer paintings that belonged to his wife that he begins to understand not just the mystery of the remembered moments of his married life--as enigmatic as the women in the paintings by the Dutch master--but comes to understand that sometimes the artist and the model are held together not only by attraction but also by escape
Topics/Categories:
Vermeer; contemporary thriller
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Barnes & Noble Discover title 1992
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Original Publish Date:
March 3, 1992
Formats and associated ISBNs:
0-670-83903-5 0 14 01.5275 X (paperback)
Formats:
Hardback; paperback.
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