The glassmaker : a novel / Tracy Chevalier.
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TextPublisher: [New York] : Viking, [2024]Copyright date: ©2024Description: x, 402 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeAudience: General | Any audienceISBN: 9780525558279Other title: Glass makerSubject(s): Women -- Italy -- Fiction | Glass blowing and working -- Fiction | Generations -- Fiction | Families -- Fiction | Murano (Italy) -- History -- Fiction | Venice (Italy) -- History -- FictionGenre/Form: Historical fiction. | Novels.Summary: "In 1486, Orsola Rosso is the eldest daughter in a family of glassblowers in Murano, Italy. As a woman, she is not meant to blow glass--but when her father dies, she teaches herself to make beads in secret, and her work becomes the cornerstone of the Rosso family fortunes. Skipping like a stone through the centuries, we follow Orsola and her family as they live through creative triumph and heartbreaking loss, from a plague rearing its head over 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"-- Provided by publisher.
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"In 1486, Orsola Rosso is the eldest daughter in a family of glassblowers in Murano, Italy. As a woman, she is not meant to blow glass--but when her father dies, she teaches herself to make beads in secret, and her work becomes the cornerstone of the Rosso family fortunes. Skipping like a stone through the centuries, we follow Orsola and her family as they live through creative triumph and heartbreaking loss, from a plague rearing its head over 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"-- Provided by publisher.
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