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Chronicles the history of a painting and the lives with which it intersects, from the artist's inspiration to its admiration by two art scholars three hundred years later, demonstrating the enduring power of art in the face of natural disaster, political upheaveal, and personal turmoil.
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This is not just another book with a Vermeer on the dust jacket...[but] an illuminating meditation on the nature of art....This beautifully imagined and written book...is a work of art itself' (Sunday Telegraph)
'Susan Vreeland's...imaginitive, deeply moving triumph' Ms London
Subtle and atmospheric...an impressive debut. (Publishers Weekly)
`...celebrate the skill with which Susan Vreeland evokes the diverse owners of the picture across the ages' Independent
Wonderful...Extraordinarily skilled...deft, perceptive, full of learning, deeply moving (Kirkus Reviews)
Intelligent, searching and unusual, the novel is filled with luminous moments; like the painting it describes so well, it has a way of lingering in the reader's mind (Katy Emck, New York Times Review of Books)
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A work of art (New York Post)
'A work of art' New York Post
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'This is not just another book with a Vermeer on the dust jacket...It is an illuminating meditation on the nature of art....This beautifully imagined and written book...is a work of art itself' Sunday Telegraph
'Susan Vreeland's...imaginitive, deeply moving triumph' Ms London
Subtle and atmospheric...an impressive debut. (Publishers Weekly)
`...celebrate the skill with which Susan Vreeland evokes the diverse owners of the picture across the ages' Independent
Wonderful...Extraordinarily skilled...deft, perceptive, full of learning, deeply moving (Kirkus Reviews)
Intelligent, searching and unusual, the novel is filled with luminous moments; like the painting it describes so well, it has a way of lingering in the reader's mind (Katy Emck, New York Times Review of Books)
US REVIEWS:
A work of art (New York Post)
'A work of art' New York Post
If you loved GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING, you will love this international bestselling story of the girl behind a Vermeer painting.
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- PublisherHighbridge Co
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 1565115430
- ISBN 13 9781565115439
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