9780062356260-0062356267-A Piece of the World: A Novel

A Piece of the World: A Novel

ISBN-13: 9780062356260
ISBN-10: 0062356267
Edition: First Edition
Author: Christina Baker Kline
Publication date: 2017
Publisher: Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover 320 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780062356260
ISBN-10: 0062356267
Edition: First Edition
Author: Christina Baker Kline
Publication date: 2017
Publisher: Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover 320 pages

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A Piece of the World: A Novel (ISBN-13: 9780062356260 and ISBN-10: 0062356267), written by authors Christina Baker Kline, was published by Mariner Books in 2017. With an overall rating of 4.2 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent A Piece of the World: A Novel (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.37.

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"Exquisite. A must-read.”

--Kristin Hannah

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the smash bestseller Orphan Train, a stunning and atmospheric novel of friendship, passion, and art, inspired by Andrew Wyeth’s mysterious and iconic painting Christina’s World.

"Later he told me that he’d been afraid to show me the painting. He thought I wouldn’t like the way he portrayed me: dragging myself across the field, fingers clutching dirt, my legs twisted behind. The arid moonscape of wheatgrass and timothy. That dilapidated house in the distance, looming up like a secret that won’t stay hidden."

To Christina Olson, the entire world was her family’s remote farm in the small coastal town of Cushing, Maine. Born in the home her family had lived in for generations, and increasingly incapacitated by illness, Christina seemed destined for a small life. Instead, for more than twenty years, she was host and inspiration for the artist Andrew Wyeth, and became the subject of one of the best known American paintings of the twentieth century.

As she did in her beloved smash bestseller Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline interweaves fact and fiction in a powerful novel that illuminates a little-known part of America’s history. Bringing into focus the flesh-and-blood woman behind the portrait, she vividly imagines the life of a woman with a complicated relationship to her family and her past, and a special bond with one of our greatest modern artists.

Told in evocative and lucid prose, A Piece of the World is a story about the burdens and blessings of family history, and how artist and muse can come together to forge a new and timeless legacy.

This edition includes a four-color reproduction of Andrew Wyeth's Christina's World.

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