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.
"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.
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F - 2152 | A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline
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