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Girl Reading

Katie Ward
3.53/5 (2051 ratings)
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Seven portraits. Seven artists. Seven girls and women reading. A young orphan poses nervously for a Renaissance maestro in medieval Siena, and an artist's servant girl in 17th-century Amsterdam snatches a moment away from her work to lose herself in tales of knights and battles. A young woman reading in a Shoreditch bar catches the eye of a young man who takes her picture, and a Victorian medium holds a book that she barely acknowledges while she waits for the exposure. Each chapter of this richly textured debut takes us into a perfectly imagined tale of how each portrait came to be, and as the connections accumulate, the narrative leads us into the present and beyond - an inspired celebration of women reading and the artists who have caught them in the act.
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
342 pages
Publication:
2011
Publisher:
Virago Press (UK)
Edition:
Digital original
Language:
ISBN10:
1844087387
ISBN13:
9781844087389
kindle Asin:
B005GG0LA2

Girl Reading

Katie Ward
3.53/5 (2051 ratings)
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Seven portraits. Seven artists. Seven girls and women reading. A young orphan poses nervously for a Renaissance maestro in medieval Siena, and an artist's servant girl in 17th-century Amsterdam snatches a moment away from her work to lose herself in tales of knights and battles. A young woman reading in a Shoreditch bar catches the eye of a young man who takes her picture, and a Victorian medium holds a book that she barely acknowledges while she waits for the exposure. Each chapter of this richly textured debut takes us into a perfectly imagined tale of how each portrait came to be, and as the connections accumulate, the narrative leads us into the present and beyond - an inspired celebration of women reading and the artists who have caught them in the act.
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
342 pages
Publication:
2011
Publisher:
Virago Press (UK)
Edition:
Digital original
Language:
ISBN10:
1844087387
ISBN13:
9781844087389
kindle Asin:
B005GG0LA2

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