Tracy Chevalier BURNING BRIGHT First Edition Signed
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Tracy Chevalier BURNING BRIGHT First Edition Signed
First edition, first print hardback of BURNING BRIGHT by Tracy Chevalier and published by HarperCollins Publishers Limited, London in 2007. Signed by Tracy Chevalier on the title page. With a 'Signed by the Author' sticker on the front.The book is in very good condition (Clean black cloth boards with copper lettering on spine) with only minor shelf wear to the illustrated dust jacket which has been neatly price clipped. Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no other inscriptions.
Tracy Chevalier grew up in Washington, DC. She moved to England in 1984, and graduated in 1994 from the MA course in creative writing at the University of East Anglia.
She has written 7 novels. Her first novel, The Virgin Blue, was chosen by WH Smith for its Fresh Talent promotion in 1997. In 2000, her second novel, Girl with a Pearl Earring has been translated into 38 languages. It won the Barnes and Noble Discover Award and sold 4 million copies worldwide. Falling Angels was published to much critical acclaim in 2002, The Lady and the Unicorn, followed in 2004 and Remarkable Creatures in 2009. Her 2013 novel, The Last Runaway was honored with the Ohioana Book Award.
The film of Girl with a Pearl Earring, starring Colin Firth as Vermeer, was released in the UK in January. It was nominated for 10 BAFTAs and two Academy Awards.
"Flames and funerals, circus feats and seduction, neighbours and nakedness: Tracy Chevalier's Burning Bright sparkles with historical 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 journey 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. This novel is perfect for fans of Erin Morgensterns The Night Circus and Essie Foxs Somnambulist."
'A subtle clarity of style, quirky but seldom over-drawn characters, engaging touches of domestic detail and a splendidly vital recreation of Georgian London' -Sunday Times
'Vivid, romantic and pacey' - Daily Mail
'Those who admired Chevalier's atmospheric evocation of 17th-century Delft will find much to enjoy in her vivid reconstruction of late 18th-century London' -Guardian
'Burning Bright is an ambitious, impressively-researched novelYou can almost smell the smoke and mildewed clothes, see the gaunt, pock-marked faces of people struggling to survive and sense Jem's wonder as he gazes across the murky Thames to a perplexing world' - Daily Express
390 pages.
ISBN: 0 00 717835 2
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