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The lady and the unicorn by Tracy Chevalier
Book Number:RC 57587
250 pages on 5 sides
read by Bruce Huntey
Paris, 1490. Nicolas des Innocents, a handsome, lascivious artist, is
summoned to the Paris home of Jean Le Viste, a nobleman who wants Nicolas to
design a series of battle tapestries for his house. Jean’s wife, Geneviève,
persuades Nicolas to talk her husband into a softer subject: the taming of a
unicorn by a noblewoman.
Nicolas shapes the tapestries with his own vision, dedicating five of the
six to the senses and using the images of Geneviève and her daughter,
Claude, with whom Nicolas is smitten, for two of the ladies in the
tapestries. Nicolas takes the finished designs to Brussels, where master
weaver Georges de la Chapelle will make them. At first Nicolas is scornful
of Georges, but gradually comes to respect him and his wife Christine, and
to take an interest in his daughter Aliénor. Nicolas models two more of the
ladies in the tapestries after Christine and Aliénor, but his heart lies
with the unattainable Claude. Several story strands are woven together
through the design and making of these complex, seductive tapestries. Some
explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2004. A very entertaining read.
Full of descriptions of the making of tapestries. I give it a 4 out of 5.
Happy reading,
Carla/TexasRed