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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Christina Baker Kline's A Piece of the World and NOT the original book. Preview: A Piece of the World, a novel by Christina Baker Kline, is the partially true story of Christina Olson, the subject of Christina's World, Andrew Wyeth's most famous painting. Christina and Andy, as she called him, were kindred spirits who formed a special friendship before he became known in the art world... Inside this companion to...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Christina Baker Kline's A Piece of the World and NOT the original book.
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A Piece of the World, a novel by Christina Baker Kline, is the partially true story of Christina Olson, the subject of Christina's World, Andrew Wyeth's most famous painting. Christina and Andy, as she called him, were kindred spirits who formed a special friendship before he became known in the art world...
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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.
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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...
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"Atmospheric and lushly detailed, Demi-Gods captures the wonder and menace of adolescence in ways both unsettling and profound." --Christina Baker Kline, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train and A Piece of the World "A brutally beautiful coming-of-age story that sings with language as lovely, wild, and full of ominous longing as the young woman at its center." --Robin Wasserman, author of Girls on Fire It is 1950, and nine-year-old...
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"Para Christina Olson, el mundo se reducía al lugar donde había nacido: la granja familiar en Cushing, un pequeño pueblo costero de Maine. Aquejada por una enfermedad que le producía una creciente incapacidad, parecía destinada a una vida limitada. Sin embargo, durante más de dos décadas Christina fue la inspiración del artista Andrew Wyeth, quien la retrató en uno de los cuadros más conocidos del siglo XX en Estados Unidos." -- Amazon.com
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