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REVIEWS: A Piece of the World
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GoodReads
Kirkus
Historical Novel Society
Book Companion
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. From the #1 New York
Times bestselling author of the smash bestseller Orphan Train, a
stunning and atmospheric novel of friendship, passion, and art,
inspired by Andrew Wyeth’s mysterious and iconic painting
Christina’s World. To Christina Olson, the entire world was her
family’s remote farm in the small coastal town of Cushing,
Maine. Born in the home her family had lived in for generations,
and increasingly incapacitated by illness, Christina seemed
destined for a small life. Instead, for more than twenty years,
she was host and inspiration for the artist Andrew Wyeth, and
became the subject of one of the best known American paintings
of the twentieth century. As she did in her beloved smash
bestseller Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline interweaves fact
and fiction in a powerful novel that illuminates a little-known
part of America’s history. Bringing into focus the
flesh-and-blood woman behind the portrait, she vividly imagines
the life of a woman with a complicated relationship to her
family and her past, and a special bond with one of our greatest
modern artists.
Characters: 83. Amazon rating: 4 1/2 stars. Genre: Historical
Fiction.
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