The Glass-Blowers (Virago Modern Classics #124)

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Synopsis
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA'Perhaps we shall not see each other again. I will write to you, though, and tell you, as best I can, the story of your family. A glass-blower, remember, breathes life into a vessel, giving it shape and form and sometimes beauty; but he can with that same breath, shatter and destroy it'Faithful to her word, Sophie Duval reveals to her long-lost nephew the tragic story of a family of master craftsmen in eighteenth-century France. The world of the glass-blowers has its own traditions, it's own language - and its own rules.'If you marry into glass' Pierre Labbe warns his daughter, 'you will say goodbye to everything familiar, and enter a closed world'. But crashing into this world comes the violence and terror of the French Revolution against which, the family struggles to survive.The Glass Blowers is a remarkable achievement - an imaginative and exciting reworking of du Maurier's own family history.
Copyright:
1963

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
384 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781405518925
Related ISBNs:
9781844080656
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group Limited
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Daphne du Maurier
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Military, Biographies and Memoirs, Literature and Fiction, Parenting and Family, Science Fiction and Fantasy
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.
Introduction by:
Michelle de Kretser

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