Girl With a Pearl Earring
by Tracy Chevalier
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0007172826
- ISBN 13
- 9780007172825
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About This Item
Harper Collins. Very Good. Paperback. 2003. The Dutch painter Vermeer has remained one of the great enigmas o f 17th-century Dutch art. While little is known of his personal l ife, his extraordinary paintings of natural and domestic life, wi th their subtle play of light and colour, have come to define the Dutch Golden Age. The mysterious portrait of the anonymous Girl with ... . rring centres on Vermeer's prosperous household in Delft in the 1 660s. The appointment of the quiet, perceptive heroine of the nov el, the servant Griet, gradually throws the household into turmoi l as Vermeer and Griet become increasingly intimate, an increasin gly tense situation that culminates in her working for Vermeer as ... .
Synopsis
A sumptuous new look for Tracy Chevalier's bestselling novel. Griet, the young daughter of a tilemaker in seventeeth century Holland, obtains her first job, as a servant in Vermeer's household. Tracy Chevalier shows us, through Griet's eyes, the complicated family, the society of the small town of Delft, and life with an obsessive genius. Griet loves being drawn into his artistic life, and leaving her former drudgery, but the cost to her own survival may be high.
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- Title
- Girl With a Pearl Earring
- Author
- Tracy Chevalier
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0007172826
- ISBN 13
- 9780007172825
- Publisher
- Harper Collins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2003
- Bookseller catalogs
- Historical Fiction;
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