Don't Be a Stranger

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Product Details
Price
$28.00  $26.04
Publisher
Knopf Publishing Group
Publish Date
Pages
320
Dimensions
6.5 X 9.4 X 1.2 inches | 1.36 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9780593802441

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About the Author
SUSAN MINOT is an award-winning novelist, short-story writer, poet, and screenwriter. Her first novel, Monkeys, was published in a dozen countries and won the Prix Femina Étranger in France. Her novel Evening was a worldwide best seller and became a major motion picture. She lives with her daughter in New York City and on an island off the coast of Maine.
Reviews
"Susan Minot's writing is like a diamond knife on ice. Always has been." --Elizabeth Strout, author of Olive Kitteridge

"As she dependably has for some 35 years now, Minot once again uses her sharp fiction as a vehicle to explore female desire, staging a romantic collision between a divorced mother and a much younger musician. Rather than a book you 'can't put down, ' it's one you might pause from precisely to prolong its mild suspense and poetic pleasures." --The New York Times Book Review

"Minot exquisitely explores desire and denial, intimacy and illusion in aravishing, haunting, and insightful tale of sexual ecstasy and emotional torment, integrity andcreativity, self and motherhood." --Booklist (starred review)

"Spare and polished. . . . Minot is an elegant writer, her sentences and paragraphs stylishly cropped, her dialogue quotation mark-free, her epigraphs chosen from classic sources: Rilke, Emerson, Lao Tzu, Oscar Wilde, Henry James, Rumi. In pellucid prose she captures each of the emotional states Ivy cycles through on the roller coaster of erotic fascination, delusion, bliss, mania, devastation--while also buffeted by the emotions and responsibilities of motherhood and of a career as a writer." --Kirkus Reviews