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A Piece of the World (Christina Baker Kline)

A Piece of the World (Christina Baker Kline)

Genre Historical Fiction
A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline
Historical Fiction • 2017 • 352 pages •  14 paperbacks + 1 large print + 1 discussion guide folder • Hosted by Rochester Public Library (Rochester, NH)

 

"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 is her family farm in the small coastal town of Cushing, Maine. The only daughter in a family of sons, Christina is tied to her home by health and circumstance, and seems destined for a small life. Instead, she becomes Andrew Wyeth’s first great inspiration, and the subject of one of the best-known paintings of the twentieth century, Christina’s World.

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