The Wayward Muse: A Novel - Brossura

Hickey, Elizabeth

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ISBN 10: 0743273192 ISBN 13: 9780743273190

Casa editrice: Washington Square Press, 2008

Riassunto

Raised in the slums of Oxford with a certainty of her own homeliness, seventeen-year-old stableman's daughter Jane Burden is discovered by the charismatic and irreverent painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti, with whom she falls madly in love before circumstances prompt her marriage to the shy craftsman William Morris. By the author of The Painted Kiss. Reprint.

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"In The Wayward Muse, Elizabeth Hickey conjures up the fascinating love story behind an artist's vision and brings it to life with richly imagined characters and historical detail. It is an enchanting novel."

-- Tova Mirvis, author of The Ladies Auxiliary and The Outside World

"I will never again encounter a William Morris design or read a poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti in quite the same way. Elizabeth Hickey's rendering of the Pre-Raphaelite movement in English poetry and art is evocative and enchanting. Jane Burden is a heroine worthy of the Brontë sisters."

-- Brenda Rickman Vantrease, author of The Illuminator and The Mercy Seller

"The Wayward Muse grants us and its protagonist, the plainest Jane from an Oxford slum, a shared dream: to be transported out of ourselves. With sumptuous and persuasive detail, the novel unveils for us the intoxications and burdens of always being someone's muse."

-- Jim Shepard, author of Project X and Love and Hydrogen

L'autore:

Elizabeth Hickey was an art history major at Williams College and earned her Masters in Fine Art from Columbia University. She is also the author of the critically acclaimed THE PAINTED KISS.

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• Editore: Washington Square Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0743273192
• ISBN 13: 9780743273190
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320