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Title: Very Poor Job
Review: Well, I guess Vreeland has proven that instead of pushing herself as an author, she's going to run her "inside the artist's life" book-concept into the ground. While I found "Girl in Hyacinth Blue" enjoyable, mostly because of the way she wrote about Dutch cottage-beliefs, this one is seriously lacking all around. Her writing is very poor, and her treatment of Artemisia's story is to take a woman who, in real life, was one tough cookie, and turn her into a washed out, maudlin weakling w/Daddy issues. For a much better treatment of Artemisia's story, I recommend "Artemisia: A Novel" by Alexandra Lapierre.
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