Nina Siegal. (2014). The Anatomy Lesson: A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Nina Siegal. 2014. The Anatomy Lesson: A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Nina Siegal, The Anatomy Lesson: A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2014.

Nina Siegal. The Anatomy Lesson: A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2014.

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   • bioText: NINA SIEGAL received her MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She is the recipient of the Jack Leggett Fellowship from Iowa, a Fulbright Fellowship in Creative Writing, MacDowell Colony Fellowships, and other grants and awards. She has covered fine art and culture for The New York Times, Bloomberg News, the International Herald Tribune, W, Art in America, and many other publications.
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Set in one day in 1632, The Anatomy Lesson is a stunning portrayal of Golden Age Amsterdam and a brilliantly imagined back-story to Rembrandt's first great work of art. Told from several points of view, ranging from a curio dealer who collects bodies for the city’s chief anatomist to philosopher Rene Descartes, the novel opens on the morning of the medical dissection that is to be recorded by the twenty-six-year-old artist from Leiden who has yet to attach his famous signature to a painting.  
As the story builds to its dramatic and inevitable conclusion, the events that transpire throughout the day sway Rembrandt to make fundamental changes to his initial composition. These changes will remain mysteries for centuries until a young art historian closely examines the painting in the twenty-first century, and makes surprising discoveries about the painter, his process, and his genius for capturing enduring truths about human nature in a single moment.

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   • source: Russell Shorto, author of Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City
   • content: "Rembrandt's The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp is a narrative in paint which tells a story of Amsterdam in its Golden Age. Now, Nina Siegal's lovely novel dissects the dissection, evocatively translating the painted narrative into words, bringing a grim tableau to life and reanimating a moment in history when art, science, life, and death converged."
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     February 3, 2014
     Siegal (A Little Trouble With the Facts) sets her splendid, gory second novel in 1623 in Amsterdam, where a thief's execution occasions a celebration, evoking "bloodlust" throughout the city on "Justice Day." Some of the narrators are famous men: Rembrandt, who painted Anatomical Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp, on which the novel is based, and Descartes, who is "‘search for the soul in the body.'" Siegal gives voice not only to artists and philosophers, but also to the condemned man Adriaen Adriaenszoon, among others. Adriaen pleads, "‘here is no evil in my breast.'" The evil, Siegal hints, might well lie in a place where Justice Day is received with such pleasure. Adriaen's pregnant lover, Flora, is the only person clamoring for possession of the man's body out of love—to give it a "Christian burial" after she fails to convince a clerk at the town hall to issue a pardon. Alive, Adriaen's body is "beaten and branded" by his Calvinist father and by several Dutch towns. As a mere object, people want his corpse "for science" and "for art." "All of us sought his flesh," Rembrandt muses. Through masterful use of subtle details, embroidered into beautiful writing, Siegal suggests that art and violence often intertwine. Agent: Marly Rusoff, Marly Rusoff and Associates.

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     October 1, 2013
     

     Sponsored by leading Rembrandt scholar Ernst van de Wetering, Fulbright and McDowell Fellow Siegal, a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, spent six years in Amsterdam researching and writing a debut novel that reimagines the creation of Rembrandt's immortal The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp. All of which recommends that you eye this book carefully.

     Copyright 2013 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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