Girl in Hyacinth Blue (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic Series) - Hardcover

Vreeland, Susan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786224401 ISBN 13: 9780786224401

Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 2000

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Review:

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)

UK REVIEWS:
'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

Book Description:

If you loved GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING, you will love this international bestselling story of the girl behind a Vermeer painting.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thorndike Pr
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0786224401
• ISBN 13: 9780786224401
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 227