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Burning Bright

Categorie	Engels
Boeknummer	#434168-YA16
Titel	Burning Bright
Auteur	Chevalier, Tracy
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	London : HarperCollins
Jaar van uitgave	2007
ISBN10	0007245130
ISBN13	9780007245130
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, some illustrations in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting	Flames and funerals, circus feats and seduction, neighbours and nakedness: Tracy Chevalier's novel Burning Bright sparkles with drama. London 1792. The Kellaways move from familiar rural Dorset to the tumult of a cramped, unforgiving city. They are leaving behind a terrible loss, a blow that only a completely new life may soften. Against the backdrop of a city jittery over the increasingly bloody French Revolution, a surprising bond forms between Jem, the youngest Kellaway boy, and streetwise Londoner Maggie Butterfield. Their friendship takes a dramatic turn when they become entangled in the life of their neighbour, the printer, poet and radical, William Blake. He is a guiding spirit as Jem and Maggie navigate the unpredictable, exhilarating passage from innocence to experience. Their jou... (Lees verder)rney inspires one of Blake's most entrancing works. Georgian London is recreated as vividly in Burning Bright as 17th-century Delft was in Tracy Chevalier's bestselling masterpiece, Girl with a Pearl Earring.
Pagina's	390
Conditie	Goed — Creases in spine; edges spine slightly worn
Prijs	€ 10,00

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