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| Title Statement | The glassmaker [text (large print)] / Tracy Chevalier. |
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| Series | Thorndike Press large print top shelf |
| Author | Chevalier, Tracy |
| Publication | Waterville, ME: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company,[2024]©2024 |
| Edition | Large print edition. |
| Extent of Item | 623 pages (large print) ; |
| ISBN | 9781420514445 (hardcover) |
| Other Number | pr07742728 |
| General Notes | Includes Italian and Venetian glossary. Originally published in standard print format: New York : Viking, 2024. |
| Summary | "In 1486, Orsola Rosso is the eldest daughter in a family of glassblowers in Murano, Italy. As a woman, she is not meant to blow glass-but when her father dies, she teaches herself to make beads in secret, and her work becomes the cornerstone of the Rosso family fortunes. Skipping like a stone through the centuries, we follow Orsola and her family as they live through creative triumph and heartbreaking loss, from a plague rearing its head over Venice to Continental soldiers stripping its palazzos bare, from the domination of Murano and its maestros to the transformation of the city of trade into a city of tourists. In every era, the Rosso women ensure that their work, and their bonds, endure"-- |
| Subjects & Genres | |
| By Topic | Families--Fiction |
| Glass artists--Fiction | |
| Women--Fiction | |
| By Location | Murano (Italy)--Fiction |
| Venice (Italy)--Fiction | |
| By Genre | Domestic fiction |
| Historical | |
| fiction | |
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| Novels | |
