BOOK PB Tracy Chevalier Historical Fiction Novel FALLING ANGELS

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Condition
Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
Subject
Historical
ISBN
9780452283206
Category

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0452283205
ISBN-13
9780452283206
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2356392

Product Key Features

Book Title
Falling Angels : a Novel
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2002
Topic
Family Life, Literary, Historical
Genre
Fiction
Author
Tracy Chevalier
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
9.2 Oz
Item Length
7.7 in
Item Width
5.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
"Entirely successful: distinct, inhabited, vivid, and real." - The Washington Post Book World "Chevalier''s ringing prose is a radiantly efficient as well-tended silver." - Entertainment Weekly "Chevalier not only authentically details the era''s social mores, tensions, and contradictions, she writes the book we want to read." - New York Daily News "I read Falling Angels  in an afternoon. The next day, I sat down and read it again." - Janice P. Nimura , The New York Times Book Review "Brilliant...a rich story that is true to the era." - The Cleveland Plain Dealer "Chevalier''s second novel confirms her place in the literary firmament...deeply affecting.... This is a beautiful novel, not soon forgotten." - Minneapolis Star Tribune "Part of the secret of Chevalier''s success is her uncanny ability to bring a lost world to life.... Just as Vermeer''s work helps to explain his world in Chevalier''s earlier novel, so the symbolic art of the graveyard illuminates Victorian culture in Falling Angels ." -The Baltimore Sun "Accomplished and powerful..." - Booklist  , "Entirely successful: distinct, inhabited, vivid, and real." - The Washington Post Book World "Chevalier's ringing prose is a radiantly efficient as well-tended silver." - Entertainment Weekly "Chevalier not only authentically details the era's social mores, tensions, and contradictions, she writes the book we want to read." - New York Daily News "I read Falling Angels  in an afternoon. The next day, I sat down and read it again." - Janice P. Nimura , The New York Times Book Review "Brilliant...a rich story that is true to the era." - The Cleveland Plain Dealer "Chevalier's second novel confirms her place in the literary firmament...deeply affecting.... This is a beautiful novel, not soon forgotten." - Minneapolis Star Tribune "Part of the secret of Chevalier's success is her uncanny ability to bring a lost world to life.... Just as Vermeer's work helps to explain his world in Chevalier's earlier novel, so the symbolic art of the graveyard illuminates Victorian culture in Falling Angels ." -The Baltimore Sun "Accomplished and powerful..." - Booklist  , "Entirely successful: distinct, inhabited, vivid, and real." -- The Washington Post Book World "Chevalier's ringing prose is a radiantly efficient as well-tended silver." -- Entertainment Weekly "Chevalier not only authentically details the era's social mores, tensions, and contradictions, she writes the book we want to read." -- New York Daily News "I read Falling Angels in an afternoon. The next day, I sat down and read it again." -- Janice P. Nimura , The New York Times Book Review "Brilliant...a rich story that is true to the era." -- The Cleveland Plain Dealer "Chevalier's second novel confirms her place in the literary firmament...deeply affecting.... This is a beautiful novel, not soon forgotten." -- Minneapolis Star Tribune "Part of the secret of Chevalier's success is her uncanny ability to bring a lost world to life.... Just as Vermeer's work helps to explain his world in Chevalier's earlier novel, so the symbolic art of the graveyard illuminates Victorian culture in Falling Angels ." --The Baltimore Sun "Accomplished and powerful..." -- Booklist
Dewey Edition
21
Grade From
Twelfth Grade
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Grade To
UP
Synopsis
Timemagazine crowned Girl With a Pearl Earring"a portrait of radiance...a jewel." In her New York Timesbestselling 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 Angelsfollows 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 Angelsis another dazzling tour de force from this "master of voices" (The New York Times Book Review)., A New York Times bestseller From the author of the international bestseller Girl With A Pearl Earring and At the Edge of the Orchard, Tracy Chevalier once again paints a distant age with a rich and provocative palette of characters. Falling Angels follows the fortunes of two families in the emerging years of the twentieth century in England, while the Queen's death reverberates through a changing nation. Told through a variety of shifting perspectives--wives and husbands, friends and lovers, masters and their servants, and a gravedigger's son-- Falling Angels is 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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