The Last Mona Lisa
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- The South of France
- Author’s Note
- Reading Group Guide
- A Conversation with the Author
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
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Copyright © 2021 by Jonathan Santlofer
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Cover design by Laura Klynstra
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Santlofer, Jonathan, author.
Title: The last Mona Lisa : a novel / Jonathan Santlofer.
Description: Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks, 2021.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020056377 (print) | LCCN 2020056378 (ebook) | (trade paperback) | (hardcover) | (epub)
Classification: LCC PS3619.A58 L37 2021 (print) | LCC PS3619.A58 (ebook)
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Contents
Front Cover
Title Page
Copyright
August 21, 1911
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The South of France
Author’s Note
Reading Group Guide
A Conversation with the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Back Cover
For Joy, who loved this book from the beginning and with my deep regret that she is not here to see it realized.
Based on a True Story
“Imitation…is a double murder, for it deprives both copy and original of their primitive existence.”
—Madame de Staël
“Nothing is original.”
—Jim Jarmusch