-
Author:Claire Messud
A Dream Life
A jewel of a novel by New York Times-bestselling author Claire Messud When the Armstrong family moves from New York at the dawn of the 1970s, Australia feels, to Alice Armstrong, like the end of the earth. Residing in a grand manor on the...- $19.95
$19.95- $19.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Claire Messud
Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write: An Autobiography in Essays
In her fiction, Claire Messud "has specialized in creating unusual female characters with ferocious, imaginative inner lives" (Ruth Franklin, New York Times Magazine). Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write opens a window on Messud's own life: a peripatetic upbringing; a...- $26.95
$26.95- $26.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Claire Messud
Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write: An Autobiography Through Essays
In her fiction, Claire Messud "has specialized in creating unusual female characters with ferocious, imaginative inner lives" (Ruth Franklin, New York Times Magazine). Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write opens a window on Messud's own life: a peripatetic upbringing; a...- $17.95
$17.95- $17.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Claire Messud
The Burning Girl
Julia and Cassie have been friends since nursery school. They have shared everything, including their desire to escape the stifling limitations of their birthplace, the quiet town of Royston, Massachusetts. But as the two girls enter adolescence, their paths diverge and Cassie sets out...- $25.95
$25.95- $25.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Claire Messud
The Burning Girl
Julia and Cassie have been friends since nursery school. They have shared everything, including their desire to escape the stifling limitations of their birthplace, the quiet town of Royston, Massachusetts. But as the two girls enter adolescence, their paths diverge and Cassie sets out...- $15.95
$15.95- $15.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Claire Messud
The Emperor's Children
A bestselling, masterful novel about the intersections in the lives of three friends, now on the cusp of their thirties, making their way--and not--in New York City. There is beautiful, sophisticated Marina Thwaite--an "It" girl finishing her first book; the daughter of Murray Thwaite,...- $17.00
$17.00- $17.00
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Claire Messud
The Hunters
In two jewel-like novellas, Claire Messud explores isolation and the nature of love. "A Simple Tale" is the moving story of Maria Poniatowski, an aging Ukrainian woman who, after liberation from servitude to the Germans, struggles with a new life in Canada. What of...- $15.95
$15.95- $15.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Claire Messud
The Last Life
Moving between colonial Algeria, the south of France, and New England, The Last Life is Claire Messud's "masterly" (Wall Street Journal) sophomore novel of lies and ghosts, love and honor. When shots from a grandfather's rifle shatter the LaBasse family's quiet integrity, long-hidden shame...- $16.95
$16.95- $16.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Claire Messud
The Woman Upstairs
Told with urgency, intimacy, and piercing emotion, this New York Times bestselling novel is the riveting confession of a woman awakened, transformed, and abandoned by a desire for a world beyond her own. Nora Eldridge is a reliable, but unremarkable, friend and neighbor, always...- $17.00
$17.00- $17.00
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Claire Messud
This Strange Eventful History
Over seven decades, from 1940 to 2010, the pieds-noirs Cassars live in an itinerant state--separated in the chaos of World War II, running from a complicated colonial homeland, and, after Algerian independence, without a homeland at all. This Strange Eventful History, told with historical...- $29.99
$29.99- $29.99
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Claire Messud
This Strange, Eventful History
In this highly acclaimed novel, life isn't all Emmy and Virginia Simpson anticipated. When Emmy's marriage to an Australian man ends, she flees her home in Sydney to "find herself" on the island of Bali?only to become embroiled with a crew of international misfits...- $44.99
$44.99- $44.99
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Claire Messud
When the World Was Steady
In this highly acclaimed novel, life isn't all Emmy and Virginia Simpson anticipated. When Emmy's marriage ends, she flees her home in Sydney to "find herself" on the island of Bali--only to become embroiled with a crew of international misfits and smugglers. Her prim...- $16.95
$16.95- $16.95
- Unit price
- per