A Piece of the World Unabridged
(eAudiobook)
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.
Notes
Kline, C. B., & Stone, P. (2017). A Piece of the World Unabridged. Unabridged. [United States], HarperAudio.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Kline, Christina Baker and Polly, Stone. 2017. A Piece of the World Unabridged. [United States], HarperAudio.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Kline, Christina Baker and Polly, Stone, A Piece of the World Unabridged. [United States], HarperAudio, 2017.
MLA Citation (style guide)Kline, Christina Baker, and Polly Stone. A Piece of the World Unabridged. Unabridged. [United States], HarperAudio, 2017.
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