Tracy Chevalier
Paperback | Pages: 233 pages Rating: 3.88 | 598270 Users | 9321 Reviews
Details Books Concering Girl with a Pearl Earring
| Original Title: | Girl with a Pearl Earring |
| ISBN: | 0452287022 (ISBN13: 9780452287020) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Johannes Vermeer, Griet, Pieter van Ruijven, Catharina Bolnes, Maria Thins, Tanneke, Pieter (Girl with a pearl earring), Antonie van Leeuwenhoek |
| Setting: | Delft(Netherlands) Delft,1664(Netherlands) |
| Literary Awards: | Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Longlist (2000), ALA Alex Award (2001), Lincoln Award Nominee (2006), Premi Llibreter de narrativa Nominee (2001) |
Explanation Conducive To Books Girl with a Pearl Earring
With precisely 35 canvases to his credit, the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer represents one of the great enigmas of 17th-century art. The meager facts of his biography have been gleaned from a handful of legal documents. Yet Vermeer's extraordinary paintings of domestic life, with their subtle play of light and texture, have come to define the Dutch golden age. His portrait of the anonymous Girl with a Pearl Earring has exerted a particular fascination for centuries - and it is this magnetic painting that lies at the heart of Tracy Chevalier's second novel of the same title. Girl with a Pearl Earring centers on Vermeer's prosperous Delft household during the 1660s. When Griet, the novel's quietly perceptive heroine, is hired as a servant, turmoil follows. First, the 16-year-old narrator becomes increasingly intimate with her master. Then Vermeer employs her as his assistant--and ultimately has Griet sit for him as a model.Present Appertaining To Books Girl with a Pearl Earring
| Title | : | Girl with a Pearl Earring |
| Author | : | Tracy Chevalier |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 233 pages |
| Published | : | 2005 by Plume/Penguin (first published January 2000) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Biography. History. Autobiography. Memoir |
Rating Appertaining To Books Girl with a Pearl Earring
Ratings: 3.88 From 598270 Users | 9321 ReviewsJudgment Appertaining To Books Girl with a Pearl Earring
Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy ChevalierGirl with a Pearl Earring is a 1999 historical novel written by Tracy Chevalier. Set in 17th century Delft, Holland, the novel was inspired by Delft school painter Johannes Vermeer's painting Girl with a Pearl Earring. Chevalier presents a fictional account of Vermeer, the model, and the painting. The novel was adapted into a 2003 film of the same name and a 2008 play. Sixteen-year-old Griet lives with her family in Delft in 1664. Her father has beenI don't know if it has to do with my vacation days or the fact that I really, but really enjoyed reading this novel, but is was almost impossible to put it down, even though I'm not a big fan of historical fiction and I've watched the film 2 times already. Speaking of it, I'm sure there were many details left out, it's hard now to tell which, but it was definitely an advantage to put a face on the characters.My interest in art over the years was quite inconsistent and I started by liking the
Beautifully written and read aloud, this is an imagining of the possible life of the girl depicted in Vermeer's lovely painting.
I heard voices outside our front door - a woman's, bright as polished brass, and a man's, low and dark like the wood of the table I was working on. They were the kind of voices we heard rarely in our house. I could hear rich carpets in their voices, books and pearls and fur. The Girl With the Pearl EarringWhen the Vermeers came to visit Griets home she had no idea they were there for her. Her parents had decided, given their near destitution, to find Griet a position as a maid with a wealthy
Enjoyable though thoroughly disposable historical novel. Central character is a servant in the house of golden age Dutch painter Jan Vermeer and is used as the model for the painting 'Girl with a pearl earring'. Plainly the story has a niceness to it - the private story behind the public painting, but doesn't have anything more to offer than that.In a way I think it demonstrates the risks or the problem of historical fiction - which hating a void inserts itself in the lives of the obscure,
Another one of my wife's recommendations (I read a lot of books that way), I picked it up from the bookshelf the night we came back from seeing the film with Scarlett Johansonn and Colin Firth. I loved the movie--it was just so incredibly sumptuous--and was curious to know the story in the novel, which I knew from experience, and from my wife's continuous comments, would be different, more detailed. I was right.Chevalier has won a place in my heart and bookshelf. Her novels are well-crafted,
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