TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chevalier,Tracy
TI  - The glassmaker: a novel   
SN  - 9780525558279
PY  - 2024///]
CY  - [New York]
PB  - Viking
KW  - Women
KW  - Italy
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Glass blowing and working
KW  - Generations
KW  - Families
KW  - Murano (Italy)
KW  - History
KW  - Venice (Italy)
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Novels
N2  - "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"--
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