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The Lady And The Unicorn
by Chevalier, Tracy
- New
- Paperback
- Condition
- New/No Jacket as Issued
- ISBN 10
- 0452285453
- ISBN 13
- 9780452285453
- Seller
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Hoquiam, Washington, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Plume, 2005 Trade Paperback. New/No Jacket as Issued.
Synopsis
A tour de force of history and imagination, The Lady and the Unicorn is Tracy Chevalier’s answer to the mystery behind one of the art world’s great masterpieces—a set of bewitching medieval tapestries that hangs today in the Cluny Museum in Paris. They appear to portray the seduction of a unicorn, but the story behind their making is unknown—until now. Paris, 1490. A shrewd French nobleman commissions six lavish tapestries celebrating his rising status at Court. He hires the charismatic, arrogant, sublimely talented Nicolas des Innocents to design them. Nicolas creates havoc among the women in the house—mother and daughter, servant, and lady-in-waiting—before taking his designs north to the Brussels workshop where the tapestries are to be woven. There, master weaver Georges de la Chapelle risks everything he has to finish the tapestries—his finest, most intricate work—on time for his exacting French client. The results change all their lives—lives that have been captured in the tapestries, for those who know where to look. In The Lady and the Unicorn , Tracy Chevalier weaves fact and fiction into a beautiful, timeless, and intriguing literary tapestry—an extraordinary story exquisitely told.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Dan A.Domike
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004899
- Title
- The Lady And The Unicorn
- Author
- Chevalier, Tracy
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket as Issued
- ISBN 10
- 0452285453
- ISBN 13
- 9780452285453
- Publisher
- Plume
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 2005
Terms of Sale
Dan A.Domike
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About the Seller
Dan A.Domike
Biblio member since 2006
Hoquiam, Washington
About Dan A.Domike
Dan A. Domike Books is an on-line and by appointment bookstore located in Hoquiam, Washington. We offer both new and used books in a variety of categories. We welcome special orders.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Trade Paperback
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