The Glass-Blowers

Daphne Du Maurier, Michelle de Kretser

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English

Virago Press Ltd
12 July 2004

Fiction & Literature; Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Series: Virago Modern Classics

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA

'She wrote exciting plots . . . a writer of fearless originality' GUARDIAN

'This French Revolution epic is an overlooked classic' MELISSA KATSOULIS, THE TIMES

'No other popular writer has so triumphantly defied classification . . . ' MARGARET FORSTER

'Perhaps we shall not see each other again. I will write to you, though, and tell you, as best I can, the story of your family. A glass-blower, remember, breathes life into a vessel, giving it shape and form and sometimes beauty; but he can with that same breath, shatter and destroy it.'

Faithful to her word, Sophie Duval reveals to her long-lost nephew the tragic story of a family of master craftsmen in eighteenth-century France. The world of the glass-blowers has its own traditions, it's own language and its own rules.

'If you marry into glass' Pierre Labbe warns his daughter, 'you will say goodbye to everything familiar, and enter a closed world'. But crashing into this world comes the violence and terror of the French Revolution against which, the family struggles to survive.

The Glass-Blowers is a remarkable achievement - an imaginative and exciting reworking of du Maurier's own family history.

By: Daphne Du Maurier
Introduction by: Michelle de Kretser
Imprint: Virago Press Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Volume: 371
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 126mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 300g
ISBN: 9781844080656
ISBN 10: 184408065X
Series: Virago Modern Classics
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 12 July 2004
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Daphne du Maurier was born in 1906 and educated at home and in Paris. She began writing in 1928, and many of her bestselling novels were set in Cornwall, where she lived for most of her life. She was made a DBE in 1969 and died in 1989.