Beyond Measure

Name: Beyond Measure
Author: Pauline Holdstock
ISBN: 9781896951492

Pauline Holdstock

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Beyond Measure

Pauline Holdstock

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#3876 of 8,085 books · #621 in Historical Fiction

Shortlisted for the Giller Prize (2004).

Beyond Measure won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, was a finalist for The Giller Prize, and was nominated for the Commonwealth Prize, the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize. The artistic world of mid-16th Century Italy comes to life through the eyes of a piebald slave stolen from her home and family in Africa. Chiara, as she is eventually named, is sold to Paolo Pallavicino, an artist in service of Giuliano de Medici. When several unfortunate incidents occur, the artist's wife believes her to be a curse and demands that she be sent away. From this starting point, Chiara works her way from painter to painter, observing the games the artists play on each other and the rivalries that fuel their artistic creations.

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