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Falling Angels - Tracy Chevalier
Falling Angels
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Time magazine crowned Girl With a Pearl Earring "a portrait of radiance...a jewel." In her New York Times bestselling follow-up, Tracy Chevalier once again paints a distant age with a rich and provocative palette of characters. Told through a variety of shifting perspectives—wives and husbands,... show more
Time magazine crowned Girl With a Pearl Earring "a portrait of radiance...a jewel." In her New York Times bestselling follow-up, Tracy Chevalier once again paints a distant age with a rich and provocative palette of characters. Told through a variety of shifting perspectives—wives and husbands, friends and lovers, masters and their servants, and a gravedigger's son—Falling Angels follows the fortunes of two families in the emerging years of the twentieth century. Graced with the luminous imagery that distinguished Girl With a Pearl Earring, Falling Angels is another dazzling tour de force from this "master of voices" (The New York Times Book Review).
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780007217236 (0007217234)
Publisher: Harper Collins
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
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Listening to the Silence
Listening to the Silence rated it
4.0 Falling Angels
In Falling Angels Tracy Chevalier tells the story of two London families at the dawn of the Edwardian era. The day after Queen Victoria's death both the Colemans and the Waterhouses visit the cemetary, visiting the gravesites of their own family. Their plots are adjoining and their daughters, Maud...
altheaann
altheaann rated it
I enjoyed Chevalier's "Girl with a Pearl Earring' so I picked this up as well.It's a character-driven historical novel of two families, especially their daughters, who grow up as neighbors, their lives intertwining and becoming complicated through the cemetery by their homes, from the death of Victo...
Cecily's book reviews
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3.0
Having multiple narrators means you effectively (though in a rather contrived way) see different views of death, class, relationships, suffragettes and growing up in the changeable times at the start of the 20th century.
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