The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier

Author:Tracy Chevalier
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3, pdf
Tags: Historical, Fiction
ISBN: 9781435291690
Publisher: Paw Prints
Published: 2008-05-29T02:08:08.765307+00:00

‘The strongest scenes in Tracy Chevalier's charming novel concern the lives of the craftsmen in late 15th-century Brussels weaving the tapestries … the novel neatly presents a weave of first-person narrative voices, each speaker creating a new strip of plot … Nicolas functions as a sort of running stitch, tying the various stories together, looping back and forth between Paris and Belgium, one woman and another. Eventually, he himself is caught, and stitched in to a woman's design.’

The Times

‘Chevalier is too careful and thoughtful a writer to paint by numbers. Although the premise of The Lady and the Unicorn superficially resembles that of Girl with a Pearl Earring, the more important similarity lies in their author's ability to populate a period setting with subtly rendered, surprisingly complex characters.’

New York Times

‘Chevalier has a keen eye for period detail and her vocabulary, smells, noises and visions evoke a very atmospheric Paris at the turn of the fifteenth century. Readers will look at tapestries with new insight and a keener eye … in all, a zesty read.’

Irish Examiner

‘I started in a state of puzzled ignorance about this beautiful but inaccessible work of art, and now find myself loving it. For this, I owe Tracy Chevalier my thanks.’

Country Life

‘Seductions, betrayals, intrigues and small tragedies abound in this rich tale, in which characters are threads woven together against the central canvas, crossing and meeting with more or less intimacy, leaving more or less of them selves in the grand design.’

Daily Telegraph

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