Rapture
Susan Minot
(Author)
21,000+ Reviews
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Description
The setting is a New York apartment where two long-estranged lovers try to resuscitate their passion. Kay is old enough to be skeptical about men-this man in particular-but still alert to the possibility of true love. Benjamin is a filmmaker with an appealing waywardness and a conveniently disappearing fiancée. As the two lie entwined in bed, Susan Minot ushers readers across an entire landscape of memory and sensation to reveal the infinite nuances of sex: its power to exalt and deceive, to connect two separate selves or make them fully aware of their solitude. Honest and unflinching, the result is a hypnotic reading experience.
Product Details
Price
$14.00
Publisher
Knopf Publishing Group
Publish Date
April 08, 2003
Pages
128
Dimensions
5.26 X 8.06 X 0.36 inches | 0.3 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780375727887
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About the Author
Susan Minot's first novel, Monkeys, was published in a dozen countries and received the Prix Femina Étranger in France. She is the author of Lust & Other Stories, Folly, Evening, and Poems 4 A.M., and wrote the screenplay for Bernardo Bertolucci's Stealing Beauty. She lives on an island in Maine.
Reviews
"Minot reaches a new level in her career. . . . Brimming with stylistic and emotional intelligence." -San Francisco Chronicle "A disconcerting examination of love and war between the sexes." -The New Yorker "Minot's story . . . is timeless, and she makes you feel its pure, raw ache. . . . Rapture is erotic, but more: it's romantic in the true sense of the word." -Miami Herald "Explores a tragic irony of love and sex: how one partner can reach the heights of devotion at the very instant the other is dumped into the pits of despair." -Time Out New York "Mesmerizing . . . provocative." -Harper's Bazaar "In Minot's writing, one is often reminded of Henry James. Like James, she pursues the filaments of emotion that almost escape language. . . . Minot's writing [is] beautiful, evocative, and self-assured." -O, The Oprah Magazine
"A splendid piece of narrative sleight-of-hand . . . that further confirms Minot's place among our finest novelists." -Minneapolis Star Tribune "I would challenge any reader to read this and not find moments of gut-wrenching truth, as if Minot had looked straight into each of our hearts." -The Providence Journal
"In language simultaneously rich and spare. . . . [Rapture] has a muscular swagger uncommon in fiction by women." -Vogue "[Rapture offers] equally convincing portraits of the ways men and women think about love and sex." -Interview "Minot takes an insightful, intelligent, humorous look at the tangled mess of modern love." -The Toronto Star "[Minot] draws the reader in with subtle strokes of mood and atmosphere and with her ability to express so much in so few words." -The Oakland Press "You get the sense that Minot has lived every moment, spoken every syllable, felt every emotion. The weird thing is: so have you." -The Baltimore City Paper
"A splendid piece of narrative sleight-of-hand . . . that further confirms Minot's place among our finest novelists." -Minneapolis Star Tribune "I would challenge any reader to read this and not find moments of gut-wrenching truth, as if Minot had looked straight into each of our hearts." -The Providence Journal
"In language simultaneously rich and spare. . . . [Rapture] has a muscular swagger uncommon in fiction by women." -Vogue "[Rapture offers] equally convincing portraits of the ways men and women think about love and sex." -Interview "Minot takes an insightful, intelligent, humorous look at the tangled mess of modern love." -The Toronto Star "[Minot] draws the reader in with subtle strokes of mood and atmosphere and with her ability to express so much in so few words." -The Oakland Press "You get the sense that Minot has lived every moment, spoken every syllable, felt every emotion. The weird thing is: so have you." -The Baltimore City Paper
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