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RTÉ Interactive - The Virgin Blue By Tracy Chevalier http://www.rte.ie/arts/2003/0205/virginblue.html

Extractions: This is a lovely book from the author of 'Girl With A Pearl Earring' about life in France; it has the intimacy and charm of 'A Year In Provence' without the construction headaches. The book is a mix of history, art, witch-hunts and religion. It is fast-paced, well plotted and will keep you guessing. Chevalier tells the tale of two women, born centuries apart who are linked through blood and a common history. The book opens with Isabelle du Moulin, a tormented young woman living in seventeenth century France. Isabelle has been nicknamed 'La Rousse', after she was visited by the Virgin Mary and her hair turned red. She is punished because of her faith and shunned by the community. Life becomes even more difficult when her only sister dies during childbirth and her mother is bitten by a wolf and dies, she wonders has she been cursed to a life of loneliness and hardship. Isabelle becomes pregnant after an ill-fated fling with a local man; she is forced to marry him much to the chagrin of his family, and is never allowed to forget her past. Then political events in France force the family to flee to Switzerland. At first life seems promising, but gradually old problems return and her children suffer at the hands of her cruel husband and his mother. Her youngest daughter Marie disappears, Isabelle is inconsolable and is forced to make a life-changing decision.
Litteratursiden.dk - Pige Med Perleørering Af Tracy Chevalier
Pige med perleørering af tracy chevalier. tracy chevalier er født i USAi 1962, men bor i dag i London. Det er hendes første roman på dansk.
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Extractions: Lån bogen på Flisemageren er blevet blind ved en arbejdsulykke, og hans datter, den 16-årige Griet, skal ud at tjene penge til husholdningen. Hun bliver stue- og køkkenpige hos den berømte maler Johannes Vermeer. Ud over det hårde arbejde med vasketøjet og rengøringen i den store husholdning med seks børn skal hun gøre rent i malerens atelier, og det skal gøres, så man ikke kan se, hun har været der, for meget af interiøret er en del af hans malerier. Det viser sig, at pigen har flair for farver, hvilket maleren ser ved første øjekast, da han kommer for at tage hende i øjesyn. De snittede grønsager har hun lagt i en vifte efter farver. Pigen er fortælleren, og emnet er maleren Johannes Vermeer i en produktiv periode, hvor han blandt andre malede det berømte billede: "Pige med perleørering". Griet har en skarp iagttagelsesevne og psykologisk sans, og hun er klar over, at hun bevæger sig i farligt farvand, for selv ikke fruen i huset må betræde atelieret, og Griet vil ikke påtage sig ros for den forbedrede husførelse for ikke at forstyrre tyendets hierarki og derved skaffe sig fjender. Griet bliver fuldstændig fascineret af, hvad der foregår i atelieret, maleprocessen, kompositionen, lysindfaldet, farverne, og hun begynder også at ændre på opstillingerne. Den erotiske tiltrækning er underspillet, men er naturligvis til stede. I al hemmelighed begynder hun at hjælpe ham med at fremstille farverne, og han begynder at male hende - også i hemmelighed. Men for at fuldende maleriet behøver han en perle, og den skal Griet skaffe fra fruens smykkeskrin! For Griet bliver maleriet livets centrum, og hun forsvinder næsten både for sig selv og sine nærmeste.
ReadingGroupGuides.com - Falling Angels By Tracy Chevalier
Falling Angels by tracy chevalier List Price $13.00 Pages 336 FormatPaperback ISBN 0452283205 Publisher Plume. Falling Angels
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ReadingGroupGuides.com - Girl With A Pearl Earring By Tracy Chevalier
Girl with a Pearl Earring by tracy chevalier List Price $21.95 Pages233 Format Paperback ISBN 052594527X Publisher Dutton Books.
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Extractions: In mid-career, the renowned 17th century Baroque artist Johannes Vermeer painted "Girl with a Pearl Earring," which has been called the Dutch Mona Lisa. Girl with a Pearl Earring tells the story behind the advent of this famous painting, all the while depicting life in 17th century Delft, a small Dutch city with a burgeoning art community. A Little Background The Baroque period is remembered less by one specific style of art than as a period of time. Derived from the Portuguese "barocco" for "irregular pearl," Baroque was comprised of many diversions from Biblically based Renaissance painting. The Protestant Reformation unleashed artists from rote depictions of scenes from the Bible and allowed them to venture into increasingly more interesting domestic domains. Ladies of the day would pose before silent musical instruments in rooms adorned with the trappings of success, like maps of newly explored territories and shelves with expensive volumes of books. As the merchant class gained monetary status in the community, so did their desire to be painted, just as royalty was just a few decades earlier. top of the page
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tracy chevalier Girl with a Pearl Earring Historical fiction FictionGeneral. Author tracy chevalier. Agatha Christie Sittaford Myst
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Tracy Chevalier's Aha! Moment
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Extractions: The big change began one morning on top of a double-decker bus that I rode every day to work. I was leafing through the newspaper and came across an article about the MA program in creative writing at the University of East Anglia. It was the first and one of the only graduate programs in creative writing in Britain, and renowned for turning out famous writers.
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Girl With A Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier
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Teenreads.com -- GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING By Tracy Chevalier
GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING tracy chevalier Plume Fiction ISBN 0452282152. Read aReview. Copyright (c) 2000 by tracy chevalier. All rights reserved. Back to top.
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Extractions: ISBN: 0452282152 Read a Review In the morning he asked me to come up in the afternoon. I assumed he wanted me to work with the colors, that he was starting the concert painting. When I got to the studio he was not there. I went straight to the attic. The grinding table was clear -nothing had been laid out for me. I climbed back down the ladder, feeling foolish.
Teenreads.com -- GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING By Tracy Chevalier
GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING tracy chevalier Plume Fiction ISBN 0452282152.Read an Excerpt. GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING is a thoroughly
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Extractions: ISBN: 0452282152 Read an Excerpt GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING is a thoroughly engaging novel that follows the life-changing experiences of quiet Griet over the two years she serves the Delft painter, Johannes Vermeer. It is hard not to like this good and obedient protagonist, for she struggles with universal yearnings such as love and an escape from poverty. Her life is a fairly solitary one as she finds herself growing apart from her family while living as an outsider in another's home. The Vermeer family, with the exception of the painter himself, is not fond of the strange Protestant girl; and as Maria Thins, the grandmother, says, "Never so much trouble with a maid before." The real trouble comes, however, when the artist takes a liking to the young girl and allows her to assist him in his work. Griet is granted the privilege that no other family member has - helping Vermeer in his studio. Not even his wife Catharina is allowed to enter the studio, so this arrangement causes a great deal of tension within the household. Griet begins her work by cleaning the various still life objects that Vermeer will paint later that day. She also is given the responsibility of grinding the paints and even purchasing the colors from the apothecary. As if these "privileges" were not causing enough disquietude within the family, matters only get worse when Vermeer agrees, at a friend's request, to paint Griet.
Bookreporter.com - FALLING ANGELS By Tracy Chevalier
Books by tracy chevalier FALLING ANGELS GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING. FALLINGANGELS tracy chevalier Dutton Fiction ISBN 0525945814. Read an Excerpt.
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Extractions: Kitty's diametrical opposite is Gertrude Waterhouse. Gertrude longs to be more than she is - in short, the proper Victorian lady. She follows manners books, wears all the right things and instructs her two precocious daughters on how to be gentlewomen. Kitty and Gertrude (and their families) are brought together in a chance meeting in a graveyard. The families have abutting plots, and their marked social and cultural differences are immediately recognizable: the Waterhouse's gravestone features a large, romantic, old-fashioned angel, which the Coleman's want removed. Even putting this implausible relationship aside, the children themselves leave a lot to be desired. They are precocious to the extreme and, even allowing for the fact that children in turn-of-the-century times spoke in a way that is unfamiliar to modern ears, their dialogue is stilted and unbelievable. And in Livy, Chevalier has created a real little monster - a spoiled drama-queen who uses all her powers of manipulation against her family, Simon, and the Colemans. Not to say there aren't children like her in the world, but why should we want to read about them?
The Object As Subject: A Review Of Tracy Chevalier's Girl With A Pearl Earring
A Novel by tracy chevalier. It is a good thing the painting of its title isdepicted on the cover of tracy chevalier's Girl with a Pearl Earring.
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Extractions: I was so surprised by this request that my mouth remained open of its own will. I blinked back tears. Virtuous women did not open their mouths in paintings. It is a good thing the painting of its title is depicted on the cover of Tracy Chevalier's Girl with a Pearl Earring. You might find yourself, as I did, wanting to look at the painting often. You find yourself compelled to put a face to the girl who comes alive in these pages. The impressive thing about this novel is that at the same time that it is an absorbing, if quiet, story, handled with grace by a gifted writer, it also presents an intersection of two predominant strains in feminist theory. The 'images of women' discourse, which is one of the foundations of scholarly women's studies as we know it today, here marries the issues presented by 'woman as artist.' Not necessarily at odds, these two strains of feminist discourse discuss women as both objects and subjects. Precisely what Chevalier does in this novel is turn the woman-as-object into subject. Ironically, Griet, the girl in the picture, is given an identity through the act of assuming the role of object of the painting. It would be tempting, and utopian, to imagine that Griet is secretly apprenticed by Vermeer and she goes on to make a living as an artist. She does not. She is after all bounded by the constraints of gender and class. Though the fictional Vermeer (only referred to as "he" and "him" in the novel) does give her secret, forbidden tasks, such as mixing paints, Griet always remains a maid, and eventually marries a butcher.
I Falling Angels /i By Tracy Chevalier
Falling Angels by tracy chevalier. tracy chevalier's Falling Angels chronicalstwo very different families set amid the social upheaval
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Extractions: by Tracy Chevalier Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier Tracy Chevalier's Falling Angels chronicals two very different families set amid the social upheaval of the first decade of the twentieth century. Opening on the very day of Queen Victoria's death, the novel, told from myriad points of view, tells a heartbreaking tale of the dichotomy of tradition and progress, custom and novelty. The novel is, foremost, an excellent examination of tradition versus progress, particularly from a female perspective. Its emphasis upon the customs of mourning is distinctly female, marked by subtle degrees and shades of variation. The novel wonderfully describes the circumscribed and sheltered life of many women at the time, as well as some of the terrifying consequences when they stray beyong those bounds (particularly in the case of Kitty Coleman). The two young daughters remain at the center of this struggle, each dealing with it in their own way, growing closer together and further apart over the span of the book. There is, finally, a deep sense of societal progression in the novel, both in the women's movement and in society as a whole. Chevalier's use of multiple points of view only increases the book's emotional texture, allowing us to glimpe events through very different filters. Each narrator has a distinct voice, each weaving into the other with a great level of intensity. As a novel both skillfully crafted and emotionally riveting
Book Reviews - Girl With A Pearl Earring By Tracy Chevalier
Girl with a Pearl Earring by tracy chevalier Published by Harper Collins,2000. The girl in the Vermeer painting 'Girl with a Pearl
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Extractions: Published by Harper Collins, 2000 This well-researched novel is true, in general, to the details of Vermeer' life . Chevalier successfully re-creates the atmosphere of 17th century Delft, raising issues about the class structure and the status of women at that time. Detailed (but never boring) accounts of the artistic process and the life of an artist at the time are provided, as well as of the drudgery which was the housemaid's lot. Chevalier brings this painting and the other painting described in the book alive for modern readers and a greater appreciation of the artist's work results. The language used and the detailed description afforded to everyday processes force you to read this book slowly, making it a most relaxing read. This book became a bestseller, not through a massive publicity budget but through word of mouth. A most enjoyable read -we at the Book Club will be recommending it to our friends. Reviewed by deValera Library Book Club.
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