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Sacred Hearts
by Dunant, Sarah
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Good/Not Applicable
- ISBN 10
- 1844083314
- ISBN 13
- 9781844083312
- Seller
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Buttaba, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
London, England: Virago Press, 2009. Book. Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Softcover, first edition, 646gms, 471 pages. 1570 in the Italian city of Ferrara, and the convent of Santa Caterina is filled with noble women married to Christ because their families cannot afford husbands. Enter 16 year old Serafina, ripped from an illicit love affair, howling with rage and determined to escape. Book is in good condition with only minor general wear and tear and light page discolouration/spotting throughout, otherwise no other pre-loved markings..
Synopsis
A tour de force of history and imagination, The Lady and the Unicorn is Tracy Chevalier’s answer to the mystery behind one of the art world’s great masterpieces—a set of bewitching medieval tapestries that hangs today in the Cluny Museum in Paris. They appear to portray the seduction of a unicorn, but the story behind their making is unknown—until now. Paris, 1490. A shrewd French nobleman commissions six lavish tapestries celebrating his rising status at Court. He hires the charismatic, arrogant, sublimely talented Nicolas des Innocents to design them. Nicolas creates havoc among the women in the house—mother and daughter, servant, and lady-in-waiting—before taking his designs north to the Brussels workshop where the tapestries are to be woven. There, master weaver Georges de la Chapelle risks everything he has to finish the tapestries—his finest, most intricate work—on time for his exacting French client. The results change all their lives—lives that have been captured in the tapestries, for those who know where to look. In The Lady and the Unicorn , Tracy Chevalier weaves fact and fiction into a beautiful, timeless, and intriguing literary tapestry—an extraordinary story exquisitely told.
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- Bookseller
- Reading Habit
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- HISFIC77
- Title
- Sacred Hearts
- Author
- Dunant, Sarah
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Not Applicable
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1844083314
- ISBN 13
- 9781844083312
- Publisher
- Virago Press
- Place of Publication
- London, England
- Date Published
- 2009
- Keywords
- Sarah Dunant, Historical Fiction, General Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- General Fiction; Historical Fiction;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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