Girl with a Pearl Earring
Tracy Chevalier, 1999
A sixteen-year-old maid in Delft is drawn into the studio of a painter who watches her as closely as she watches the world.
Tracy Chevalier
Chevalier was born in Washington, D.C., and has lived in London since 1984; a poster of Vermeer's painting hung on her wall for years before she wrote the book.
Feels like art, longing and curiosity.
The child who can't invent monsters grows up to look very closely at real things.
Frans, Agnes, and I used to sit along that canal and throw things in—pebbles, sticks, once a broken tile—and imagine what they might touch on the bottom—not fish, but creatures from our imagination, with many eyes, scales, hands and fins. Frans thought up the most interesting monsters. Agnes was the most frightened. I always stopped the game, too inclined to see things as they were to be able to think up things that were not. Books by Tracy Chevalier
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