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LA Tour Dreams of the Wolf Girl
de Huddle, David
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Good +/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0618081739
- ISBN 13
- 9780618081738
- Librería
-
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin, 2002. Nice reading copy. Binding is cocked. Pages are clean and bright. Book and jacket show some shelfwear. Deckled page edges.. First Edition, 1st printing. Hard Cover. Good +/Good.
Sinopsis
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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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 038422
- Título
- LA Tour Dreams of the Wolf Girl
- Autor
- Huddle, David
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good +
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Good
- Edición
- First Edition, 1st printing
- ISBN 10
- 0618081739
- ISBN 13
- 9780618081738
- Editorial
- Houghton Mifflin
- Lugar de publicación
- Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
- Fecha de publicación
- 2002
- Palabras clave
- ARTIST FICTION
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Fiction Historical;
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Reading Copy
- Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
- Jacket
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- Shelfwear
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