“O’Connor . . . skillfully navigates the bizarre orbit of Klimt’s masterpiece . . . with depth of insight and righteous indignation. Whether or not you’ve marveled at Klimt’s shimmering portrait before, you won’t look at it the same way again.”
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Washingtonian “Fascinating, ambitious, exhaustively researched . . . A mesmerizing tale of art and the Holocaust.”
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The Washington Post “Writing with a novelist's dynamism, O'Connor resurrects fascinating individuals and tells a many-faceted, intensely affecting, and profoundly revelatory tale of the inciting power of art and the unending need for justice.”
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Booklist (starred review)
“Part history and part mystery,
The Lady in Gold is a striking tale.”
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BookPage
“The dazzling, nearly surreal
‘Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I’ is about a lot more than just art. O'Connor captures the whole story.”
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Library Journal“Every stolen painting has a story. The tale behind this one is epic.”
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Christian Science Monitor“A fascinating book.”
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Dallas Morning News“[An] evocation of a beautiful, vanished world.”
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Women's Wear Daily“Fascinating tale of beauty, terror, loss and remembrance reveals a deeper truth beneath the golden surface.”
—Jonathan Lopez,
Associated Press“O'Connor has told an important story.”
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The Wall Street Journal“Lusciously detailed.”
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Kirkus“Encapsulates a fascinating, complicated cultural history of fin-de-siècle Vienna, its Jewish intelligentsia, and their near complete destruction by the Nazis....vividly evokes... how she became entwined with the charismatic, sexually charged, and irreverent Klimt...poignant and convincing...”
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Publisher’s Weekly“Ignites many a startling flashpoint in the moral history of our time—a taut, rich, tangy and instructive read.”
—Frederic Morton
“Gripping in details and drama.”
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The Los Angeles Times“Intricately webbed and shocking tale of this iconic work.”
—Donna Seaman