Burning Bright, First Edition, New

Chevalier, Tracy

ISBN 10: 052594978X / ISBN 13: 9780525949787

Published by Dutton, 2007

About this Item

Hardcover, Condition: As New, only due a very tiny spot to top page edges, see additional image, otherwise New, Unread, Tight Binding, Spine Not Broken, Never opened past copyright page, Bound with Deckle Edge pages, Dust Jacket Condition: As New, Only due to very slight rubbing to spine edges otherwise New, no tears, cuts or stains, (assumed) First Edition due to being a First Printing, March 2007 as stated, Full # print line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 as printed on copyright page, Original $24.95 price Not clipped, Novels by Tracy Chevalier: ** The Virgin Blue (1997) Girl with a Pearl Earring (1999) Falling Angels (2001) The Lady and the Unicorn (2003) Burning Bright (2007) Remarkable Creatures (2009) The Last Runaway (2013) At the Edge of the Orchard (2016) A Single Thread (2019).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Burning Bright, First Edition, New
• Publisher: Dutton
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 052594978X
• ISBN 13: 9780525949787
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

About this title

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.

About the Author

"I was born and grew up in Washington, DC. After getting a BA in English from Oberlin College (Ohio), I moved to London, England in 1984. I intended to stay 6 months; I’m still here.

"As a kid I’d often said I wanted to be a writer because I loved books and wanted to be associated with them. I wrote the odd story in high school, but it was only in my twenties that I started writing ‘real’ stories, at night and on weekends. Sometimes I wrote a story in a couple evenings; other times it took me a whole year to complete one.

"Once I took a night class in creative writing, and a story I’d written for it was published in a London-based magazine called Fiction. I was thrilled, even though the magazine folded 4 months later.

"I worked as a reference book editor for several years until 1993 when I left my job and did a year-long MA in creative writing at the University of East Anglia in Norwich (England). My tutors were the English novelists Malcolm Bradbury and Rose Tremain. For the first time in my life I was expected to write every day, and I found I liked it. I also finally had an idea I considered ‘big’ enough to fill a novel. I began The Virgin Blue during that year, and continued it once the course was over, juggling writing with freelance editing.

"An agent is essential to getting published. I found my agent Jonny Geller through dumb luck and good timing. A friend from the MA course had just signed on with him and I sent my manuscript of The Virgin Blue mentioning my friend’s name. Jonny was just starting as an agent and needed me as much as I needed him. Since then he’s become a highly respected agent in the UK and I’ve gone along for the ride."

Tracy Chevalier is the New York Times bestselling author of six previous novels, including Girl with a Pearl Earring, which has been translated into thirty-nine languages and made into an Oscar-nominated film. Her latest novel is The Last Runaway. Born and raised in Washington, D.C., she lives in London with her husband and son.