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Author:

Chevalier, Tracy.

Title:

Girl with a pearl earring / Tracy Chevalier.

Publisher:

Plume,

Copyright Date:

2001, c1999

Description:

233 p. ; 20 cm.

Subject:

Vermeer, Johannes,--1632-1675--Fiction.
Artists' models--Fiction.
Women household employees--Fiction
Netherlands--Social life and customs--17th century--Fiction.
Delft (Netherlands)--Fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.

Summary:

A brilliant historical novel on the corruption of innocence, using the famous painting by Vermeer as an inspiration. Griet, the young daughter of a tilemaker in seventeeth century Holland, obtains her first job, as a servant in Vermeer's household. Tracy Chevalier shows us, through Griet's eyes, the complicated family, the society of the small town of Delft, and life with an obsessive genius. Griet loves being drawn into his artistic life, and leaving her former drudgery, but the cost to her own survival may be high.

ISBN:

9780452287020
0452287022

OCLC:

(OCoLC)46932764

Locations:

USUX851 -- ISU Library (Ames)

KKPB566 -- Montrose Public Library (Montrose)

WAPD715 -- Sheldon Public Library (Sheldon)

OUAX845 -- Library (Dordt College) (Sioux Center)

UVAX975 -- Library (Western Iowa Tech (Area 12)) (Sioux City)     ** Lending Suspended

CDPC522 -- Solon Public Library (Solon)