Tracy Chevalier, Author . Dutton $23.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-525-94581-9
No small part of the appeal of Chevalier's excellent debut, Girl with a Pearl Earring, was its plausibility; readers could readily accept the idea that Vermeer's famous painting might indeed have been created under circumstances similar to...
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Tracy Chevalier, Author . Plume $14 (304p) ISBN 978-0-452-28444-9
Chevalier's clunky first novel, initially published in England in 1997, lacks the graceful literary intimacy of her subsequent runaway hit, Girl with a Pearl Earring. In split-narrative fashion, it follows a transplanted American woman in...
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Tracy Chevalier, Author . Dutton $23.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-525-94767-7
Chevalier, whose bestselling Girl with a Pearl Earring
showed how a picture can inspire thousands of words, yokes her limpid, quietly enthralling storytelling to the six Lady and the Unicorn tapestries that hang in the Museum of the Middle Ages in...
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Tracy Chevalier, Author . Dutton $24.95 (311p) ISBN 978-0-525-94978-7
Author of Girl with a Pearl Earring
, set in the home/studio of Vermeer, and other novels, Chevalier turns in an oblique look at poet and painter William Blake (1757–1827). Following the accidental death of their middle son, the Kellaways, a...
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Tracy Chevalier, Author . Dutton $26.95 (310p) ISBN 978-0-525-95145-2
Chevalier's newest is a flat historical whose familiar themes of gender inequality, class warfare and social power often overwhelm the story. Tart-tongued spinster Elizabeth Philpot meets young Mary Anning after moving from London to the...
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Tracy Chevalier, Author Dutton $21.95 (233p) ISBN 978-0-525-94527-7
The scant confirmed facts about the life of Vermeer, and the relative paucity of his masterworks, continues to be provoke to the literary imagination, as witnessed by this third fine fictional work on the Dutch artist in the space of 13 months. Not...
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Tracy Chevalier. Dutton, $26.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-525-95299-2
Chevalier’s (Girl with a Pearl Earring) haunting seventh novel delves into the difference between a theory of belief and its practice. When young Quaker Honor Bright’s fiancé breaks off the relationship to marry outside the faith, Honor goes to...
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Tracy Chevalier. Viking, $26.95(304p) ISBN 978-0-525-95300-5
Chevalier may not be able to trump her wildly successful second novel, Girl with a Pearl Earring, but her eighth outing is a compelling showcase of 19th-century American pioneering spirit in which a family from Connecticut struggles to establish an...
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Tracy Chevalier. Random/Hogarth, $25 (288p) ISBN 978-0-553-44763-7
The latest in Hogarth’s Shakespeare series finds Chevalier (Girl with a Pearl Earring) relocating Othello to Washington, D.C., in the early 1970s, where sixth grader Osei, the son of a Ghanaian diplomat, faces his first morning at a new elementary...
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Tracy Chevalier, Author, Charlotte Parry, Read by, Susan Lyons, Read by , read by Susan Lyons and Charlotte Parry. Penguin Audio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-14-314530-1
The discoveries of fossils on the beaches of Lyme Regis, England, in the 19th century rocked the world and opened the minds of scientists to the planet's unimaginable age and the extinction of species. Though attributed to men of consequence,...
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Tracy Chevalier. Viking, $27 (336p) ISBN 978-0-525-55824-8
Chevalier (Girl with a Pearl Earring) celebrates the embroiderers of Winchester Cathedral in this appealing story of a 38-year-old spinster who learns needlecraft from real-life embroidery pioneer Louisa Pesel. In 1932, Violet Speedwell is what...
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Tracy Chevalier. Viking, $32 (416p) ISBN 978-0-525-55827-9
Chevalier (Girl with a Pearl Earring) underperforms in this oddball fantastical epic about a Venetian glassmaker who ages incredibly slowly from the late 15th century, when she is a child, through the present day, when she’s in her late 60s....
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