The Glass-Blowers
Author | : Daphne du Maurier |
Publisher | : Little, Brown |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2013-12-17 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780316253512 |
ISBN-13 | : 0316253510 |
Rating | : 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Glass-Blowers written by Daphne du Maurier and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "consistently entertaining" saga of beauty, war, and family set during the French Revolution, from the author of Rebecca and The Birds (New York Times). The world of the glass-blowers has its own traditions, its own language — and its own rules. "If you marry into glass," Pierre Labbe warns his daughter, "you will say goodbye to everything familiar, and enter a closed world." But crashing into this world comes the violence and terror of the French Revolution, against which the family struggles to survive. Years later, Sophie Duval reveals to her long-lost nephew the tragic story of a family of master craftsmen in eighteenth-century France. Drawing on her own family's tale of tradition and sorrow, Daphne du Maurier weaves an unforgettable saga of beauty, war, and family.