· In Girl Reading, Katie Ward takes readers behind the canvas and into the yearning, painful, secretive, and hopeful lives of women who read, and the artists who capture them in the act. Topics Questions for DiscussionBrand: Scribner. In Girl Reading, a debut novel, Katie Ward paints seven portraits of girls reading—their lives, their conflicts, their passions, their griefs. The author’s prose is rich, her syntax spare, exact, sometimes provocative, often surprising, usually delightful. From the start we are caught up in the characters, the stories of young women who read/5. Katie Ward. Katie Ward is an author in Suffolk whose debut novel, Girl Reading, is published by Virago (UK) and Scribner (US). The Times called Girl Reading ‘a real wow of a first novel,’ and it was Book of the Week on the Oprah blog. In Katie received the Clarissa Luard Award from Hilary Mantel, an award given to a writer under the age of
- Girl Reading, Katie Ward. Seven women in seven different eras contemplate reading and art in Katie Ward's ambitious debut novel Girl Reading. Each section introduces a new story, a new set of characters and circumstances, and a new work of art that was inspired by and includes the likeness of a girl or woman reading. Katie Ward's first book takes its inspiration from a handful of paintings, drawings and photographs. Though labeled a novel, "Girl Reading" is more an intricately woven collection of stories. In Girl Reading, Katie Ward imagines the stories behind a number of portraits of girls and women reading; the portraits range in past time from Simone Martini's Annunciation () to a photograph on Flickr in , and a concluding chapter set in provides context for the previous six. Ward has a distinctive writing style that creates a.
Katie Ward. Katie Ward is an author in Suffolk whose debut novel, Girl Reading, is published by Virago (UK) and Scribner (US). The Times called Girl Reading ‘a real wow of a first novel,’ and it was Book of the Week on the Oprah blog. In Katie received the Clarissa Luard Award from Hilary Mantel, an award given to a writer under the age of In Girl Reading, a debut novel, Katie Ward paints seven portraits of girls reading—their lives, their conflicts, their passions, their griefs. The author’s prose is rich, her syntax spare, exact, sometimes provocative, often surprising, usually delightful. From the start we are caught up in the characters, the stories of young women who read. There has been a lot of buzz surrounding GIRL READING by Katie Ward and I can understand why. The plot sounds both mesmerizing and intriguing. Seven portraits. Seven artists. Seven girls and women reading.A young orphan poses nervously for a Renaissance maestro in medieval Siena. An artist's servant girl in seventeenth.
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