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From the New York Times best-selling author of the smash best seller Orphan Teach, a sensational and atmospheric book of friendship, passion, and art, influenced by Andrew Wyeth's inexplicable and iconic painting Christina's World. "Later he told me that he'd been frightened to show me the painting. He thought I wouldn't like just how he portrayed me: dragging myself over the field, fingertips clutching mud, my lower limbs twisted behind. The arid moonscape of wheatgrass and timothy. That dilapidated house in the length, looming up like a secret that won't stay covered." To Christina Olson, the whole world was her family's remote farm in the small seaside town of Cushing, Maine. Created in the home her family experienced lived in for generations, and progressively more incapacitated by health problems, Christina looked like destined for a tiny life. Instead, for more than twenty years, she was number to and enthusiasm for the artist Andrew Wyeth and became the subject of one of the best known North american paintings of the 20th century. As she performed in her much loved smash best seller Orphan Teach, Christina Baker Kline interweaves reality and fiction in a powerful book that illuminates a little-known part of America's record. Bringing into focus the flesh-and-blood female behind the family portrait, she vividly imagines the life of a female with a complicated romantic relationship to her family and her past and a special relationship with one of our greatest modern designers. Informed in evocative and lucid prose, A Little bit of the World is a story about the burdens and blessings of family history and how artist and muse will come alongside one another to forge a new and timeless legacy.
