The Lady and the Unicorn - Rilegato

Chevalier, Tracy

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ISBN 10: 0525947671 ISBN 13: 9780525947677

Casa editrice: E P Dutton, 2004

Riassunto

Interweaving historical fact with fiction, this richly textured novel by the author of Girl with a Pearl Earring explores the mystery behind the creation of the remarkable Lady and the Unicorn tapestries, woven at the end of the fifteenth century, which today hang in the Cluny Museum in Paris. 200,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

“Chevalier’s second novel confirms her place in the literary firmament . . . This is a beautiful novel, not soon forgotten.” (Star Tribune (Minneapolis) on Falling Angels) “Entirely successful: distinct, inhabited, vivid, and real.” (The Washington Post Book World on Falling Angels) “A portrait of radiance . . . Chevalier brings the real artist Vermeer and a fictional muse to life in a jewel of a novel.” (Time magazine on Girl with a Pearl Earring) “Chevalier shines . . . in her clean prose and her descriptions of rural French and Swiss life, then and now.” (Los Angeles Times Book Review on The Virgin Blue)

L'autore:

Tracy Chevalier is the author of the internationally bestselling novels The Virgin Blue, Girl with a Pearl Earring, and Falling Angels. An American originally from Washington, D.C., she lives in London, England, with her husband and son.

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• Editore: E P Dutton
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0525947671
• ISBN 13: 9780525947677
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 250