The Glassmaker by Chevalier, Tracy
The Glassmaker by Chevalier, Tracy

The Glassmaker

Named a Best Historical Novel of 2024 by The Sunday Times, The Independent, and BookPage "The Glassmaker...
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Author: Tracy Chevalier
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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The Glassmaker by Chevalier, Tracy

The Glassmaker

$48.82
The Glassmaker by Chevalier, Tracy

The Glassmaker

$48.82
Author: Tracy Chevalier
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Named a Best Historical Novel of 2024 by The Sunday Times, The Independent, and BookPage

"The Glassmaker is as finely wrought as a dazzling Murano bead. . . . Chevalier reaffirms her status as one of the reigning queens of historical fiction." --The Independent

"This charming fable is at once a love story that skips through six centuries, and also a love song to the timeless craft of glassmaking. Chevalier probes the fierce rivalries and enduring loyalties of Murano's glass dynasties, capturing the roar of the furnace, the sweat on the skin, and the glittering beauty of Venetian glass." - Geraldine Brooks, author of Horse

From the bestselling historical novelist, a rich, transporting story that follows a family of glassmakers from the height of Renaissance-era Italy to the present day.

It is 1486 and Venice is a wealthy, opulent center for trade. Orsola Rosso is the eldest daughter in a family of glassblowers on Murano, the island revered for the craft. As a woman, she is not meant to work with glass--but she has the hands for it, the heart, and a vision. When her father dies, she teaches herself to make glass beads in secret, and her work supports the Rosso family fortunes.

Skipping like a stone through the centuries, in a Venice where time moves as slowly as molten glass, we follow Orsola and her family as they live through creative triumph and heartbreaking loss, from a plague devastating Venice to Continental soldiers stripping its palazzos bare, from the domination of Murano and its maestros to the transformation of the city of trade into a city of tourists. In every era, the Rosso women ensure that their work, and their bonds, endure.

Chevalier is a master of her own craft, and The Glassmaker is as inventive as it is spellbinding: a mesmerizing portrait of a woman, a family, and a city as everlasting as their glass.

Author: Tracy Chevalier
Publisher: Viking
Published: 06/18/2024
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.38lbs
Size: 9.26h x 6.35w x 1.35d
ISBN: 9780525558279


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/01/2024
Booklist 05/15/2024 pg. 25
Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2024
BookPage 07/01/2024
Shelf Awareness 07/11/2024

About the Author
Tracy Chevalier is the New York Times bestselling author of ten previous novels, including Girl with a Pearl Earring, which has been translated into forty-five languages and made into an Oscar-nominated film, a play, and an opera. Born and raised in Washington, DC, she lives in London with her husband.
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