Girl In Hyacinth Blue
This series of tales revolves around an imaginary painting by Vermeer. Each tale reflects the impact the painting has on the the people around it whose lives it either illuminates or darkens.
This series of tales revolves around an imaginary painting by Vermeer. Each tale reflects the impact the painting has on the the people around it whose lives it either illuminates or darkens.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780755305308 (0755305302)
Publish date: 2000
Publisher: Review (Headline Book Publishing)
Pages no: 180
Edition language: English
I think I liked this book more the first time I read it. It's still good, but I definitely liked certain stories better than others. "Morningshine" left the biggest impression on me last time (and probably this time too). I skipped most of "From the Personal Papers of Adriaan Kuypers" and "Hyacint...
This fictitious story revolves around an undiscovered, or perhaps, an unauthenticated Vermeer. It begins in the present day, where a professor invites a colleague to look at a painting he's kept hidden for decades. He insists that the art piece is by Johannes Vermeer: vehement in his study of the br...
This is the first book of the year reading challenge, which is a mix between Kat's TBR-Challenge and PopSugar's reading challenge. (I didn't have a jar so I put it in an old little tin box) For this month, I had to read a book I was supposed to read in school/uni but didn't. I generally read a...
This novel consists of 8 short stories, some first person and others third person, concerning a Vermeer painting and its owners from present day working back to when the work was created. The painting has a different meaning for each story's protagonist. The stories range through centuries of Dutch...
I got this book from my library's last used book sale for $.50 (hey, when did they get rid of the cent symbol from keyboards?). I had never heard of the book or the author but I figured I love historical fiction and I love books about art so this was probably a winner. And turns out, I was right. I ...
12 years ago
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