Tulip Fever, (Paperback)

from startingover

Set in Amsterdam, 17th century, and features an artist as one of the central characters. It's perhaps pacier (and racier!) than the Chevalier novel and features colour plate reproductions of some V...

from startingover

Set in Amsterdam, 17th century, and features an artist as one of the central characters. It's perhaps pacier (and racier!) than the Chevalier novel and features colour plate reproductions of some V...

from grigoro

Listened to this after reading that it is being made into a movie. Steamy thriller set in Holland in the 1600's. Beautiful young woman marries older widower, falls in love with young painter hired ...

from borbet

Annoying plotting. Not once, but twice, the author uses a very flimsy plot device to force the action into (what seems to me) a preconceived path. Oiy. Characters make decisions and take actions th...

from RobinDawson

Disappointing. I thought the historical background about the tulip industry would be interesting, but by the time I got to page 78 the tulips had only been mentioned in passing, and the story was m...