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| Título: | Girl with a Pearl Earring |
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London
A plume book
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| Fecha de edición: | 1999 |
| Physical Description: | 233 p. |
| Summary: | " WHEN GRIET BECOMES A MAID IN THE HOUSEHOLD OF THE
seventeenth-century painter Johannes Vermeer, she thinks she knows her role: housework, laundry, and child care. She even feels able to handle his shrewd mother-in-law, his restless wife, and their jealous servant. What no one expects is that Griet's quiet manner, quick perceptions, and fascination with her master's paintings will draw her inexorably into his world. Their growing intimacy sparks whispers; and when Vermeer paints her wearing his wife's pearl earrings, the gossip escalates into a full-blown scandal that irrevocably changes Griet's life. Written with the precision and focus of an Old Master painting, Girl With a Pearl Earring seamlessly blends history and fiction into a luminous novel about artistic vision and sensual awakening.
Outstanding. - USA Today
Absorbing...[Chevalier] creates a world reminiscent of a Vermeer interior: suspended in a particular moment, it trascends its time an place. -The New Yorker
Complex and revealing... a brainy novel whose passion is ideas that range among the dynamics and moralities of art and the artist, their claims upon life, life's claims upon them, and the struggles of women to find their own values and place in a male hierarchy...
Exhilarating. -The New York Times " (extraído de la contratapa) |
| ISBN: | 052594527X |
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