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Girl in Hyacinth Blue

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2nd September 2002

Price: £9.99

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Selected: Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780755305308

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Girl in Hyacinth Blue tells the story of an imaginary painting by Vermeer, and the aspirations and longings of those whose lives it illuminates, and darkens. From a proud father regretting his lost love to a compromised French noblewoman, from a hanged girl to Vermeer’s own gifted daughter, Susan Vreeland’s beautiful and luminous tales link to form an evocative jewel.

Reviews

Sunday Telegraph
This is not just another book with a Vermeer on the dust jacket...[but] an illuminating meditation on the nature of art....This beautifully imagined and written book...is a work of art itself'
UK REVIEWS: 'This is not just another book with a Vermeer on the dust jacket...It is an illuminating meditation on the nature of art....This beautifully imagined and written book...is a work of art itself' Sunday Telegraph
'Susan Vreeland's...imaginitive, deeply moving triumph' Ms London
Publishers Weekly
Subtle and atmospheric...an impressive debut.
`...celebrate the skill with which Susan Vreeland evokes the diverse owners of the picture across the ages' Independent
Kirkus Reviews
Wonderful...Extraordinarily skilled...deft, perceptive, full of learning, deeply moving
Katy Emck, New York Times Review of Books
Intelligent, searching and unusual, the novel is filled with luminous moments; like the painting it describes so well, it has a way of lingering in the reader's mind
US REVIEWS:
New York Post
A work of art
'A work of art' New York Post
'Intelligent, searching and unusual, the novel is filled with luminous moments; like the painting it describes so well, it has a way of lingering in the reader's mind' New York Times Book Review
'Subtle and atmospheric...an impressive debut' Publishers Weekly
'Wonderful...extraordinarily skilled...deft, perceptive...deeply moving' Kirkus Reviews
'Wonderful' Salon.com