Claire Messud

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The Emperor's Children

Claire Messud

The Emperor’s Children is a richly drawn, brilliantly observed novel of fate and fortune—about the intersections in the lives of three friends, now on the cusp of their thirties, making their way--and not-- in New York Cit...

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Published: Jun 2007

The Woman Upstairs (Vintage Contempor...

Claire Messud

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Emperor's Children, a masterly new novel: the riveting confession of a woman awakened, transformed and betrayed by a desire for a world beyond her own. Nora Eldridge, an elementary sc...

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Published: Feb 2014

The Hunters

Claire Messud

The author of The Last Life explores the theme of isolation in two short novels--A Simple Tale, about an immigrant woman torn between past and present as she struggles to preserve her relationship with her son, and The Hunters, about ...

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Published: Aug 2002

When the World Was Steady

Claire Messud

In a debut novel of remarkable breadth and intimate insight, Claire Messud tells the story of two middle-aged sisters and the divergent life paths chosen by each. On Bali and Skye, two islands as far apart as geography allows, the si...

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Published: May 2007

The Last Life

Claire Messud

In a story set between North Africa, France, and New England, the Algerian LaBasse family's secrets begin to unravel--a trigger-happy grandfather, a mother who pretended to be French, and a bastard child that was abandoned by the fami...

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Published: Sep 2000

The Burning Girl: A Novel

Claire Messud

A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist "[A] masterwork of psychological fiction.… Messud teases readers with a psychological mystery, withholding information and then cannily parceling it out." ―Chicago TribuneJulia and...

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Published: Jun 2018
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