A Golden Web (16 page)

Writer and poet
Barbara Quick
is the author of the novels
VIVALDI’S VIRGINS
and
NORTHERN EDGE
, winner of the Discover Prize.
A GOLDEN WEB
is her first book for teen readers. An avid traveler and student of other languages, she has run an international boardinghouse; written everything from self-help books to humor columns to grant requests for disadvantaged children; and done whatever jobs she needed to do—from landscape gardening to catering to editing—to allow her to continue writing. She lives with her teenage son, Julian, in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she takes frequent classes and occasionally performs with a Brazilian dance troupe.

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A GOLDEN WEB
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Quick, Barbara.

A golden web / Barbara Quick.—1st ed.

p.   cm.

Summary: In fourteenth-century Bologna, Alessandra Giliani, a brilliant young girl, defies convention and risks death in order to attend medical school at the university so that she can study anatomy.

ISBN 978-0-06-144887-4 (trade bdg.)

1. Giliani, Alessandra, 1307-1326—Juvenile fiction. [1. Giliani, Alessandra, 1307–1326—Fiction. 2. Sex role—Fiction. 3. Anatomy—Fiction. 4. Bologna (Italy)—History—Middle Ages, 600–1500—Fiction. 5. Italy—History—1268–1492—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.Q3183Go 2010         2009014265

[Fic]—dc22         CIP

AC

EPub Edition © February 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-199194-3

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