Girl with a Pearl Earring: A Novel Paperback - 2001
by Chevalier, Tracy
- Used
Chevalier transports readers to a bygone time and place in this richly imagined portrait of the young woman who inspired one of Vermeer's most celebrated paintings. "Girl with a Pearl Earring" is the story of 16-year-old Griet, whose life is transformed by her brief encounter with genius, even as she herself is immortalized in canvas and oil.
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- Title Girl with a Pearl Earring: A Novel
- Author Chevalier, Tracy
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: repri
- Condition UsedGood
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2001-01-01
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0WOPD4002EBP
- ISBN 9780452282155 / 0452282152
- Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
- Dimensions 7.6 x 5 x 0.8 in (19.30 x 12.70 x 2.03 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Reading level 770
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 17th Century
- Cultural Region: Benelux
- Library of Congress subjects Biographical fiction, Women domestics
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99032493
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Summary
The New York Times bestselling novel by the author of Remarkable Creatures and The Last Runaway
Translated into thirty-nine languages and made into an Oscar-nominated film, starring Scarlett Johanson and Colin Firth
Tracy Chevalier transports readers to a bygone time and place in this richly-imagined portrait of the young woman who inspired one of Vermeer's most celebrated paintings.
History and fiction merge seamlessly in this luminous novel about artistic vision and sensual awakening. Girl with a Pearl Earring tells the story of sixteen-year-old Griet, whose life is transformed by her brief encounter with genius . . . even as she herself is immortalized in canvas and oil.
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- Booklist, 04/01/2001, Page 1460
- Booksense '76 Reading Grp 04, 05/01/2004, Page 1
- New York Times, 01/14/2001, Page 28