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While I didn't love it I feel like this one still rates 4 stars. I love reading author notes after a historical fiction read because I always feel like that bumps up or solidifies a rating for me. In this case, it bumped it up. I enjoyed the slow unraveling of the story and the characters. The period and scene setting were also definitely well-done. I loved connecting the author's notes with the story when I finished reading. I really look forward to looking at this painting in a new way the nex
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Digital audio book performed by Polly Stone
3.5***
From the book jacket: 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 paintings of the twentieth cent ...more
3.5***
From the book jacket: 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 paintings of the twentieth cent ...more
I enjoyed this one. The story is beautifully written, the descriptions used by the author add life to the iconic painting. I plan to read the biography on Andrew Wyeth by Meryman as he's one of my favorite artists and I'd like to learn more about him.
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Feb 21, 2021
Kris (My Novelesque Life)
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May 14, 2017
Sharmon
marked it as to-read
