LEADER 02961nim 2200481Ka 450 001 9910164104403321 005 20240912110542.6 010 $a0-06-246670-4 035 $a(CKB)3710000001056794 035 $a(BIP)055704549 035 $a(ODN)ODN0002733093 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001056794 100 $a20170206d2017 uy 1 101 0 $aeng 135 $auruna---||||| 181 $cspw$2rdacontent 182 $cs$2rdamedia 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 12$aA piece of the world $eA novel. /$fChristina Baker Kline 205 $aUnabridged. 210 $cHarperCollins 215 $a1 online resource (7 audio files) $cdigital 311 $a0-06-264295-2 330 $aFrom 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. ""Later he told me that he'd been afraid to show me the painting. He thought I wouldn't like the way he portrayed me: dragging myself across the field, fingers clutching dirt, my legs twisted behind. The arid moonscape of wheatgrass and timothy. That dilapidated house in the distance, looming up like a secret that won't stay hidden."" 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. Told in evocative and lucid prose, A Piece of the World is a story about the burdens and blessings of family history, and how artist and muse can come together to forge a new and timeless legacy. 517 $aPiece of the World, A 606 $aFiction$2OverDrive 606 $aHistorical Fiction$2OverDrive 606 $aLiterature$2OverDrive 610 $aMaine 610 $aArtists 610 $aFiction 610 $aLiterature And Fiction 615 17$aFiction. 615 7$aHistorical Fiction. 615 7$aLiterature. 686 $aFIC000000$aFIC014000$aFIC019000$2bisacsh 700 $aKline$b Christina Baker$01774758 702 $aStone$b Polly$4oth 906 $aAUDIO 912 $a9910164104403321 996 $aA piece of the world$94287783 997 $aUNINA