false 382723 8 '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. 197239 book 1963 The Glass-Blowers total:177|5:30|4:58|3:74|2:11|1:4| 177 630 330 18 4 2 false false Mon Mar 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 06 18:54:06 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 09 07:44:53 -0700 2009
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Author: Daphne Du Maurer
Publisher: Virago
Copyright: 1963
Genre: Fiction
Pages:386
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