A Wonderful New Book About Van Gogh

For those interested is some very-informative background information
concerning how and why, during the last seventy days of his life,
Vincent van Gogh was able to produce over seventy incredibly-beautiful
final masterpieces, the recent historical novel "The Last Van Gogh"
(Penguin) by the internationally acclaimed author Alyson Richman
provides some amazing insight. The author traveled to the French
village of Auvers-sur-Oise on a number of occasions and meticulously
researched the period during which Van Gogh lived there, even
interviewing a number of the village's elders, who knew his last
muse, Magaret Gachet, the daughter of the homeopathic doctor who was
treating Van Gogh at the time. It's truly an amazing novel,
beautifully written and I recommend it highly. It just came out in
paperback a few months ago. (I got mine at Amazon.com.) For anybody
who loves Van Gogh's works, this book should prove unbelievably
fascinating. [Incidentally, Ms. Richman is also the author of the
highly-reviewed novels "The Mask Carver's Son" (Bloomsbury -
2000) and "Swedish Tango" (Simon & Schuster - 2004).]

Paul