
The Vanishing Point
By Louise Hawes
2004
First Published
3.79
Average Rating
240
Number of Pages
In lush, glowing prose, Louise Hawes’s historical novel draws readers into the life and art of sixteenth-century Bologna with a compelling account of Lavinia Fontana, arguably the most famous female painter of the Italian Renaissance. Here readers will find a coming-of-age story filled with quest, complication, and catastrophe as well as miracles and hope. Although the novel is set four hundred years ago, the hard choices it involves speak to all times, all places, and are sure to tap into readers’ own conflicts between head and heart, real life and dreams.
Avg Rating
3.79
Number of Ratings
131
5 STARS
27%
4 STARS
33%
3 STARS
33%
2 STARS
8%
1 STARS
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Author
Louise Hawes
Author · 8 books
I live in North Carolina, where time moves more slowly than it did in New York. That means my day can include writing, working with new writers, yoga, and hanging OUT with my sweet teacher, Mother Nature. I have two grown children, both teachers. They are, deliciously and, to me always surprisingly, among my two best friends on the planet. I'm a teacher as well as an author, serving proudly on the faculty at Vermont College of Fine Arts in the MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults Program, and at Mainely Writing, an intensive week-long writing retreat on the coast of you know which beautiful New England state. What's new? A collaborative graphic novel, A FLIGHT OF ANGELS, comes out from Vertigo/DC Comics in November!