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Author:
Moggach, Deborah.
Title:
Tulip fever / Deborah Moggach.
Publisher:
Dial PressTrade Paperbacks,
Copyright Date:
2005
Description:
281 p. ; 21 cm.
Subject:
Netherlands--History--Eighty Years' War, 1568-1648--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Summary:
During the 1630's in Amsterdam, local inhabitants sought to secure immortality by having their respective portraits painted. Sophia Sandvoort sits for such a portrait next to her elderly husband Cornelis. The surroundings included objects representing her husband's piety along with a tulip. For Cornelis has made money from the speculation on this flower and its bulbs. Houwver, as Jan van Loos begins to capture Sophia's likeness on canvas, a slow passion progresses between them.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)163848789
Locations:
SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

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