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Rent Burning Bright
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Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Plume Books
Published: Mar 2008
Genre: Fiction - Historical - General
Retail Price: $17.00
Pages: 320
Synopsis
From the bestselling author of Girl With a Pearl Earring comes a stirring eighteenth-century coming-of-age tale
Tracy Chevalier, author of the international bestseller Girl With a Pearl Earring, returns with another brilliantly rendered historical tale set 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.
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