La Tour Dreams of the Wolf Girl
by Huddle, David
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- NEAR FINE/NOT ISSUED
- Seller
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Armada, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Houghton Mifflin, 2001. Trade Paperback Paperback. NEAR FINE/NOT ISSUED. • Binding: Trade Paperback • Revision: Advanced Reader Copy • 2001 • Clean tight pages. Smooth spine. Smooth front & back cover. •
Synopsis
In this absorbing novel, the award-winning author David Huddle tells a provocative story involving the life of the mysterious painter Georges de La Tour and the echoes of his work across time. An art history professor, Suzanne Nelson escapes her failing marriage by retreating into her research and the fertile world of her imagination. La Tour's ability to create luminous portraits of peasants stood in sharp contrast to his aggression toward the poor, but little information about his life exists, and Suzanne finds herself filling in the details, trying to understand how a man capable of brutality could create such beauty. Unwittingly looking to her own life and marriage, she invents La Tour's final painting sessions with a young model, a village girl. When the girl modestly disrobes for the artist, he discovers a marking on her back that she is obviously unaware of. By painting her, La Tour in effect reveals to the girl exactly who she is and who she is not. Her reaction is at once astonishing and utterly warranted. In Suzanne's mind, this encounter becomes a story of truth and lies, art and identity. Deftly moving between the present and the seventeenth century, Huddle reveals the surprising repercussions of history and art in modern life. In the process he asks the biggest questions: How do we come to define who we are? Which secrets must remain our own and which can we justify giving away? LA TOUR DREAMS OF THE WOLF GIRL is both passionate and fascinating, a wonder of narrative invention and emotional depth.
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- Bookseller
- Squirreled Away Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10006720
- Title
- La Tour Dreams of the Wolf Girl
- Author
- Huddle, David
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - NEAR FINE
- Jacket Condition
- NOT ISSUED
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- GENERAL FICTION
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- Spine
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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