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"Girl With a Pearl Earring" by Tracy Chevalier, "The Music Lesson" by Katharine Weber and "Girl in Hyacinth Blue" by Susan Vreeland
Three recent novels shimmer with the sensuousness of Vermeer, the painter who inspired them.

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By Marion Lignana Rosenberg

January 9, 2000 |

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