The glassmaker
Chevalier, Tracy2024
Large Print
It is 1486, and Venice is a wealthy, opulent centre for trade. Orsola Rosso is the eldest daughter in a family of glassblowers on Murano, the island revered for the craft. As a woman, she is not meant to work with glass - but she has the hands for it, the heart and a vision. When her father dies, she teaches herself to make glass beads in secret, and her work supports the Rosso family fortunes. Skipping like a stone through the centuries, in a Venice where time moves as slowly as molten glass, we follow Orsola and her family as they live through creative triumph and heart-breaking loss, from a plague devastating 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.
Main title:
The glassmaker / Tracy Chevalier.
Author:
Chevalier, Tracy, author
Work:
Edition:
Large print edition.
Imprint:
[Waterville, Maine] : Thorndike Press, 2024.©2024
Collation:
623 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
ISBN:
9781420514445
Language:
English
Subject:
Interpersonal relations -- FictionGlass blowing and working -- Italy -- FictionWomen glass artists -- Italy -- FictionFamilies -- Italy -- FictionWomen -- Italy -- FictionFamily-owned business enterprises -- FictionMurano (Italy) -- FictionVenice -- History -- FictionMagic realist fictionFamily Saga FictionLarge type booksHistorical fictionDomestic fiction
BRN:
475725