Burning Bright by Tracy Chevalier

Description

Bibliographic Details

• Author: Tracy Chevalier
• Title: Burning Bright
• Publisher: ‎ Dutton; First Printing (March 2007)
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Hardcover w/ Deckle Edge – ‎311 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 052594978X
• ISBN-13: ‎ 9780525949787
• Item Weight: ‎ 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: ‎ 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 14 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 9 and higher
• Book Condition: Used – Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Excellent

Synopsis:

From the author of the international bestseller Girl With a Pearl Earring and At the Edge of the Orchard, comes a stirring eighteenth-century coming-of-age tale

In the waning days of eighteenth-century London, poet, artist, and printer William Blake works in obscurity as England is rocked by the shock waves of the French Revolution. Next door, the Kellaway family has just moved in, and country boy Jem Kellaway strikes up a tentative friendship with street-savvy Maggie Butterfield.

As their stories intertwine with Blake's, the two children navigate the confusing and exhilarating path to adolescence, and inspire the poet to create the work that enshrined his genius.

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.