Claire Messud Books
Big Men (And L.A. Women) (Granta 51, Autumn 1995)
By Harold Pinter, BLAKE MORRISON, John Sweeney, Andrea Ashworth, Clive Sinclair, Caroline Alexander, Edward Blishen, Claire Messud, Bill Buford, Lindsey Hilsum, Will Hobson, Douglas Brooker
Big as in substantial, powerful, famous; men as in weak, wicked, and notorious. Gitta Sereny on Albert Speer, the tyrant as survivor; Caroline Alexander on the classical tyrant, Hastings Banda; And...
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Big Men
By Harold Pinter, Bill Buford, BLAKE MORRISON, John Sweeney, Andrea Ashworth, Clive Sinclair, Caroline Alexander, Edward Blishen, Claire Messud, Lindsey Hilsum, Will Hobson, Douglas Brooker
Big as in substantial, powerful, famous; men as in weak, wicked, and notorious. Gitta Sereny on Albert Speer, the tyrant as survivor; Caroline Alexander on the classical tyrant, Hastings Banda; And...
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The Last Life: A Novel
By Claire Messud, Messud, Claire, 1966-
Claire Messud's piercing second novel asks questions most are too fearful to face. Moving between the South of France, the East Coast of the U.S., and Algeria, The Last Life explores the weight o...
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The Hunters: Two Short Novels
These two short novels have nothing in common except for providing the pleasure of seeing a writer of enormous skill and stylistic grace excel in crafting two very different fictions. "A Simple Tal...
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The Hunters
These two short novels have nothing in common except for providing the pleasure of seeing a writer of enormous skill and stylistic grace excel in crafting two very different fictions. "A Simple Tal...
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The Emperor'S Children
Three friends on the verge of their thirties--beautiful, sophisticated Marina Thwaite; Danielle, a quiet TV producer; and Julius, a freelance writer--make their way through New York City, until Mar...
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The Emperor'S Children
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year • A bestselling, masterful novel about the intersections in the lives of three friends, now on the cusp of their thirties, m...
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When The World Was Steady
By Claire Messud, Messud, Claire
From the New York Times best-selling author of The Emperors Children, a masterly new novel: the riveting confession of a woman awakened, transformed and betrayed by a desire for a world beyond...
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