The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier

Description

Bibliographic Details

• Author: Tracy Chevalier
• Title: The Lady and the Unicorn
• Publisher: ‎ Dutton; First Printing (January 2004)
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Hardcover w/ Deckle Edge – 250 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0525947671
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0525947677
• Item Weight: ‎ 1.08 pounds
• Dimensions: ‎ 5.92 x 1 x 8.18 inches
• Book Condition: Used – Very Good
• Dust Cover Condition: Excellent
• Edition: First Printing

Synopsis:

A tour de force of history and imagination, The Lady and the Unicorn is Tracy Chevalier’s answer to the mystery behind one of the art world’s great masterpieces—a set of bewitching medieval tapestries that hangs today in the Cluny Museum in Paris. They appear to portray the seduction of a unicorn, but the story behind their making is unknown—until now.

Paris, 1490. A shrewd French nobleman commissions six lavish tapestries celebrating his rising status at Court. He hires the charismatic, arrogant, sublimely talented Nicolas des Innocents to design them. Nicolas creates havoc among the women in the house—mother and daughter, servant, and lady-in-waiting—before taking his designs north to the Brussels workshop where the tapestries are to be woven. There, master weaver Georges de la Chapelle risks everything he has to finish the tapestries—his finest, most intricate work—on time for his exacting French client. The results change all their lives—lives that have been captured in the tapestries, for those who know where to look.

In The Lady and the Unicorn, Tracy Chevalier weaves fact and fiction into a beautiful, timeless, and intriguing literary tapestry—an extraordinary story exquisitely told.

About the Author:

Tracy Chevalier is the author of 10 novels, including the international bestseller GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING, which has sold over 5 million copies and been made into an Oscar-nominated film starring Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth.

American by birth, British by geography, she lives in London with her husband and son.

Her latest novel, A SINGLE THREAD, tells the story of an English woman between the Wars who forges an independent life in Winchester.

Tracy is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and has honorary doctorates from her alma maters Oberlin College and the University of East Anglia.

Her website www.tchevalier.com will tell you more about her and her books.