| International Standard Book Number |
9798822686717
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| Personal Name |
Chevalier, Tracy, author.
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| Title Statement |
The glassmaker playaway / Tracy Chevalier.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
Solon, Ohio : Playaway Products, LLC, 2024.
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| Physical Description |
1 audio media player : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
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| General Note |
Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player.
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| General Note |
One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening.
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| General Note |
Previously released by Penguin Random House.
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| Participant or Performer Note |
Read by Lisa Flanagan.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"This charming fable is at once a love story that skips through six centuries, and also a love song to the timeless craft of glassmaking. Chevalier probes the fierce rivalries and enduring loyalties of Murano's glass dynasties, capturing the roar of the furnace, the sweat on the skin, and the glittering beauty of Venetian glass." Geraldine Brooks, author of Horse From the bestselling historical novelist, a rich, transporting story that follows a family of glassmakers from the height of Renaissance-era Italy to the present day. It is 1486 and Venice is a wealthy, opulent center 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 glassbut 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 heartbreaking 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. Chevalier is a master of her own craft, and The Glassmaker is as inventive as it is spellbinding: a mesmerizing portrait of a woman, a family, and a city as everlasting as their glass.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Women Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Glass blowing and working Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Venice (Italy) Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Murano (Italy) Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Audiobooks.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Playaway (Brand name)
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Flanagan, Lisa, narrator.
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| Added Entry, Corporate Name |
Penguin Audio (Firm)
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| Added Entry, Corporate Name |
Playaway Digital Audio, issuing body.
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| Added Entry, Corporate Name |
Playaway Products, LLC, issuing body.
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