Kline, Christina Baker,

A piece of the world : a novel / Christina Baker Kline. - 1st ed. - New York : William Morrow, 2017. - 309 p. ; 24 cm.

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. As she did in her beloved smash bestseller Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline interweaves fact and fiction in a powerful novel that illuminates a little-known part of America's history. Bringing into focus the flesh-and-blood woman behind the portrait, she vividly imagines the life of a woman with a complicated relationship to her family and her past, and a special bond with one of our greatest modern artists.

ISBN: 0062356267 9780062356260 (hc.) 9780062644183 (trade pbk.) 9780062356260 9780062663764 (tr, pbk.)

LCCN: bl2017006500

Subjects--Topical Terms:
People with disabilities
Sick
Artists
Artists' models

LC Class. No.: PS3561.L478 / P54 2017

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.54