A Piece of the World
A Adult Fiction, Historical, Fiction book. I remember her words to me when I left school: Your mind will be your comfort. It is, sometimes. And...
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the smash bestseller Orphan Train, a stunning and atmospheric novel of friendship, passion, and art, inspired by Andrew Wyeth’s mysterious and iconic painting Christina’s World."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...
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- Pages: 320 pages
- ISBN: 9780062356284 / 62356283
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I remember her words to me when I left school: Your mind will be your comfort. It is, sometimes. And sometimes it isn't. Christina Baker Kline, A Piece of the World // I ... am left with the lingering feeling that the places we go in our minds to find comfort have little to do with where our bodies go. Christina Baker Kline, A Piece of the World // This is like telling a person who has leapt off a cliff to be careful. I am already in midair. Christina Baker Kline, A Piece of the World //
4.5 stars. I loved The Orphan Train and, happily, I enjoyed this just as much. 'Christina's World' is a work of art that has been made more special to me after learning the story behind it. I don't know that I particularly liked Christian, but at the same time I felt a deep connection to her. We can all be tied to anchores and while... Probably 4.5 stars total but rounding up to 5 stars because I enjoyed it so much. This book caught me by surprise with how absorbing it was and just how much I liked it. I have read and enjoyed Christina Baker Kline's previous books with the big exception of her most well-known, The Orphan Train (don't ask me why--I have a copy that... Andrew Wyeth, his painting Christina's World would immortalize this young woman and her life. In fact many of his paintings would feature this farm, where he would visit and paint in the summers for twenty years, a farm that Christina's family had owned and lived in for generations. Cushing, Maine, how the family came here and whom...
