

Girl in Hyacinth Blue
Author: Susan Vreeland
Narrator: Jennifer Baum, J. D. Cullum, Gigi Bermingham
Unabridged: 5 hr 2 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Highbridge Audio
Published: 09/18/2001
Categories: Fiction
Synopsis
Moving back in time and across the Atlantic, Vreeland traces the treasured painting from owner to owner. In doing so, she demonstrates the enduring power of art in the face of natural disaster, political upheaval, and personal turmoil. Ultimately, she ends the odyssey in Delft, where the painting's haunting subject is identified and tells her own poignant story about the picture's origins.
Each of the eight linked chapters has an irresistible painterly quality--finely wrought, artfully illuminated, and subtly executed. Together, they constitute a literary masterpiece, one that the New York Times Book Review praised as "intelligent, searching, and unusual... filled with luminous moments; like the painting it describes so well."