Celebrate Tracy Chevalier's modern classic Girl With A Pearl Earring, featuring a gorgeous new edition illustrated with eight pages of Vermeer's masterworks. History and fiction merge seamlessly in this luminous novel about artistic vision and sensual awakening. The story of Griet, whose life is transformed by her brief encounter with a genius as she herself is immortalized in canvas and oil, is new again.
A Deluxe Edition of the National Bestseller with Over 2 Million Copies Sold: Eight Pages of Full-Color Plates Include Every Vermeer Painting Discussed in the BookFrench FlapsRough Fronta New Foreword
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"As a kid I'd often said I wanted to be a writer because I loved books and wanted to be associated with them. I wrote the odd story in high school, but it was only in my twenties that I started writing 'real' stories, at night and on weekends. Sometimes I wrote a story in a couple evenings; other times it took me a whole year to complete one.
"Once I took a night class in creative writing, and a story I'd written for it was published in a London-based magazine called Fiction. I was thrilled, even though the magazine folded 4 months later.
I worked as a reference book editor for several years until 1993 when I left my job and did a year-long MA in creative writing at the University of East Anglia in Norwich (England). My tutors were the English novelists Malcolm Bradbury and Rose Tremain. For the first time in my life I was expected to write every day, and I found I liked it. I also finally had an idea I considered 'big' enough to fill a novel. I began The Virgin Blue during that year, and continued it once the course was over, juggling writing with freelance editing.
"An agent is essential to getting published. I found my agent Jonny Geller through dumb luck and good timing. A friend from the MA course had just signed on with him and I sent my manuscript of The Virgin Blue mentioning my friend's name. Jonny was just starting as an agent and needed me as much as I needed him. Since then he's become a highly respected agent in the UK and I've gone along for the ride."
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Book Description Soft Cover. Condition: new. Seller Inventory # 9782710326762
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: NEUF. La jeune et ravissante Griet est engagée comme servante dans la maison du peintre Vermeer. Nous sommes à Delft, au dix-septième siècle, l'âge d'or de la peinture hollandaise. La ville est aussi prospère que rigide. Griet s'occupe du ménage et des six enfants de Vermeer en s'efforçant d'amadouer l'épouse, la belle-mère et la gouvernante, chacune étant très jalouse de ses prérogatives.Au fil du temps, la douceur de la jeune fille, sa vivacité, sa sensibilité émeuvent le maître. Il l'introduit dans son univers. À mesure que s'affirme leur intimité, la tension et la suspicion règnent dans la maisonnée, le scandale se propage dans la ville.Tracy Chevalier s'est inspirée d'un des plus célèbres et mystérieux tableaux de Vermeer, La Jeune Fille à la perle, pour écrire ce roman envoûtant sur la corruption de l'innocence. C'est l'histoire d'un coeur simple sacrifié au bûcher du génie. - Nombre de page(s) : 272 - Poids : 210g - Langue : ANGLAIS (ETATS-UNIS) - Genre : Littérature Anglo-Saxonne QUAI VOLTAIRE. Seller Inventory # N9782710326762