THE GLASSMAKER - Tracy Chevalier
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Venice, 1486: Time flies differently here, like the glass the island's maestros spend their lives learning to handle. Women are not meant to work with glass, but Orsola Rosso flouts convention to save her family from ruin, working in secret, knowing her creations must be perfect even if achieving perfection takes a lifetime . . .
An inventive and transporting novel that follows a family of glassmakers from the height of renaissance era Italy to the present day, The Glassmaker is a mesmerizing portrait of a woman, a family, and a city as eternal as glass.
"As finely wrought as a dazzling Murano bead, The Glassmaker reaffirms Chevalier's status as one of the reigning queens of historical fiction." -- The Independent
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THE GLASSMAKER - Tracy Chevalier
THE GLASSMAKER - Tracy Chevalier
~ Standard Hardcover
~ New Release - 2024
Venice, 1486: Time flies differently here, like the glass the island's maestros spend their lives learning to handle. Women are not meant to work with glass, but Orsola Rosso flouts convention to save her family from ruin, working in secret, knowing her creations must be perfect even if achieving perfection takes a lifetime . . .
An inventive and transporting novel that follows a family of glassmakers from the height of renaissance era Italy to the present day, The Glassmaker is a mesmerizing portrait of a woman, a family, and a city as eternal as glass.
"As finely wrought as a dazzling Murano bead, The Glassmaker reaffirms Chevalier's status as one of the reigning queens of historical fiction." -- The Independent
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~ Standard Hardcover
~ New Release - 2024
Venice, 1486: Time flies differently here, like the glass the island's maestros spend their lives learning to handle. Women are not meant to work with glass, but Orsola Rosso flouts convention to save her family from ruin, working in secret, knowing her creations must be perfect even if achieving perfection takes a lifetime . . .
An inventive and transporting novel that follows a family of glassmakers from the height of renaissance era Italy to the present day, The Glassmaker is a mesmerizing portrait of a woman, a family, and a city as eternal as glass.
"As finely wrought as a dazzling Murano bead, The Glassmaker reaffirms Chevalier's status as one of the reigning queens of historical fiction." -- The Independent
