Tracy Chevalier Book Signing - "Burning Bright" February 28, 2008

Bestselling author Tracy Chevalier discusses and signs her latest historical novel, Burning Bright. With her fine eye for historical detail, Tracy Chevalier, the bestselling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring, writes a romantic, sweeping, and thoroughly engaging story about William Blake's London. Burning Bright follows the Kellaway family as they leave behind tragedy in rural Dorset and come to late 18th-century London. As they move in next door to the radical painter/poet William Blake, and take up work for a nearby circus impresario, the youngest family member gets to know a girl his age. Embodying opposite characteristics Maggie Butterfield is a dark-haired, streetwise extrovert, Jem Kellaway a quiet blond introvert the children form a strong bond while getting to know their unusual neighbor and his wife. Set against the backdrop of a city nervous of the revolution gone sour across the Channel in France, Burning Bright explores the states of innocence and experience just as Blake takes on similar themes in his best-known poems, Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Join us as Wordsmiths Books presents Tracy Chevalier's only Georgia appearance. Co-sponsored by the Georgia Center for the Book.

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