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La Tour Dreams of the Wolf Girl (Advance Reading Copy) Soft Cover
por David Huddle
- Novo
- Brochura
- Condição
- Novo
- ISBN 10
- 0618081739
- ISBN 13
- 9780618081738
- Livreiro
-
Denver, Colorado, United States
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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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- Livreiro
- visionarybook
(US)
- Estoque do vendedor nº
- 031127
- Título
- La Tour Dreams of the Wolf Girl (Advance Reading Copy) Soft Cover
- Autor
- David Huddle
- Formato/Encadernação
- Soft cover
- Estado do livro
- Novo
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Edição
- Advance Reading Copy
- Encadernação
- Brochura
- ISBN 10
- 0618081739
- ISBN 13
- 9780618081738
- Editorial
- Houghton Mifflin
- Local de publicação
- Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.s.a.
- Data de publicação
- 2001
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