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Girl with a Pearl Earring Paperback - 2001

by Tracy Chevalier

Chevalier transports readers to a bygone time and place in this richly imagined portrait of the young woman who inspired one of Vermeer's most celebrated paintings. "Girl with a Pearl Earring" is the story of 16-year-old Griet, whose life is transformed by her brief encounter with genius, even as she herself is immortalized in canvas and oil.


Summary

The New York Times bestselling novel by the author of Remarkable Creatures and The Last Runaway

Translated into thirty-nine languages and made into an Oscar-nominated film, starring Scarlett Johanson and Colin Firth

Tracy Chevalier transports readers to a bygone time and place in this richly-imagined portrait of the young woman who inspired one of Vermeer's most celebrated paintings.

History and fiction merge seamlessly in this luminous novel about artistic vision and sensual awakening. Girl with a Pearl Earring tells the story of sixteen-year-old Griet, whose life is transformed by her brief encounter with genius . . . even as she herself is immortalized in canvas and oil.

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The New York Times bestselling novel by the author of A Single Thread and At the Edge of the Orchard

Translated into thirty-nine languages and made into an Oscar-nominated film, starring Scarlett Johanson and Colin Firth

Tracy Chevalier transports readers to a bygone time and place in this richly-imagined portrait of the young woman who inspired one of Vermeer's most celebrated paintings.

History and fiction merge seamlessly in this luminous novel about artistic vision and sensual awakening. Girl with a Pearl Earring tells the story of sixteen-year-old Griet, whose life is transformed by her brief encounter with genius . . . even as she herself is immortalized in canvas and oil.

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  • Title Girl with a Pearl Earring
  • Author Tracy Chevalier
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: repri
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 2001-01-01
  • ISBN 9780452282155 / 0452282152
  • Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.6 x 5 x 0.8 in (19.30 x 12.70 x 2.03 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Reading level 770
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 17th Century
    • Cultural Region: Benelux
  • Library of Congress subjects Biographical fiction, Women domestics
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99032493
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Media reviews

"A portrait of radiance...Chevalier brings the real artist Vermeer and a fictional muse to life in a jewel of a novel." --Time magazine

"A vibrant, sumptuous novel...triumphant...a beautifully written tale that mirrors the elegance of the painting that inspired it." --The Wall Street Journal

"The richest, most rewarding novel I have read this year." --The Cleveland Plain Dealer

"Outstanding." --USA Today

"Marvelously evocative." --The New York Times

"Superb...vividly captures the world of 17th century Delft." --The San Francisco Chronicle

"Tracy Chevalier has so vividly imagined the life of the painter and his subject that you say to yourself: This is the way it must have been." --The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

"A jewel of a novel." --The Miami Herald

Citations

  • Booklist, 04/01/2001, Page 1460
  • Booksense '76 Reading Grp 04, 05/01/2004, Page 1
  • New York Times, 01/14/2001, Page 28

About the author

Tracy Chevalier is the New York Times bestselling author of seven previous novels, including Girl with a Pearl Earring, which has been translated into thirty-nine languages and made into an Oscar-nominated film. Born and raised in Washington, D.C., she lives in London with her husband and son.

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