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The quilter's apprentice a novel

The wife of a landscape designer in Pennsylvania obtains a job doing housework for an old woman who quilts, and in the process learns to quilt herself. As the two quilt, the old one recounts her family's tragic story.

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Main Author: Chiaverini, Jennifer
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster, c1999.
Subjects:
Older women > Fiction.
Quilting > Fiction.
Female friendship > Fiction.
Compson, Sylvia (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Pennsylvania > Fiction.
Quilts > Fiction.
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Summary:The wife of a landscape designer in Pennsylvania obtains a job doing housework for an old woman who quilts, and in the process learns to quilt herself. As the two quilt, the old one recounts her family's tragic story.
Physical Description:271 p. ; 23 cm.
ISBN:0684849720
9780684849720
0684855321
9780684855325
Author Notes:Jennifer Chiaverini is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and the University of Chicago. She used to be a writing instructor at Penn State University and Edgewood College. She is the author of the Elm Creek Quilts series and four volumes of quilt patterns inspired by her novels. She is also the designer of the Elm Creek Quilts fabric lines from Red Rooster Fabrics. Among her most recent works, is the New York Times bestselling novel, Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker.

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