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Portrait of an Unknown Woman: A Novel

By Vanora Bennett

Book information

Publisher
Harper Paperbacks
Year
2008
ISBN
9780061252563, 0061252565, 0061251836, 9780061251832, 9780061370694
LCC
PR6102.E666 P67 2008
Open Library ID
OL23275924M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1772559 bytes)
Pages
464\433
Time added
2011-04-20 14:05:05

Description

In the year 1527, the great portraitist Hans Holbein, fleeing the Protestant Reformation, comes to England under commission to Sir Thomas More. Over the course of the next six years, Holbein paints two nearly identical portraits of the More family, his dear and loyal friends. But closer examination of the second painting reveals several mysteries. . . . Set against the turmoil and tragedy of Henry VIII's court, Portrait of an Unknown Woman vividly evokes sixteenth-century England on the verge of enormous change—as viewed through the eyes of Meg Giggs, More's intelligent, tenderhearted, headstrong adopted daughter, who stands at the center of this sweeping, extraordinary epic. It is a tale of sin and religion, desire and deception—the story of a young woman on the brink of sensual awakening and a country on the edge of mayhem.

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