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Books by Claire Messud
  | | The Burning Girl(Reprint) A Novel by Claire Messud Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2018 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-35605-2, ISBN: 0-393-35605-1 "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 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 e ..." |
 | | Marlene Dumas Myths & Mortals by Marlene Dumas, Claire Messud Hardcover, 128 Pages, Published 2019 by David Zwirner Books ISBN-13: 978-1-941701-99-7, ISBN: 1-941701-99-X "The latest from the renowned painter—Marlene Dumas’s new works respond more than ever to the uncertainty and sensuality of the painting process itself. Allowing the structure of the canvases and the materiality of the paint greater freedom to inform the development of her compositions, the artist has likened the creation of these works to the act of falling in love: an unpredictable and open-ended process that is as filled with awkwardn ..." |
 | | The Burning Girl by Claire Messud Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2018 by Fleet ISBN-13: 978-0-7088-9861-1, ISBN: 0-7088-9861-0 "An Amazon Best Book of September 2017: Claire Messud’s seventh novel, The Burning Girl, may be to adolescent girlhood what The Catcher in the Rye was to generations of boys. It’s one of those novels that seems to encompass all that is important about that intense period of life and love, despite being narrow in scope. Told in the first person by Julia, a young teenager living in a small town outside Boston, there is as much passion here ..." |
 | | Girl Talk What Science Can Tell Us About Female Friendship by Jacqueline Mroz, Claire Messud Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2018 by Seal Press ISBN-13: 978-1-58005-767-7, ISBN: 1-58005-767-5 "A veteran science reporter's investigation into the fascinating and distinctive nature of women's friendshipsIn Girl Talk, New York Times science reporter Jacqueline Mroz takes on the science of female friendship--a phenomenon that's as culturally powerful as it is individually mysterious. She examines friendship from a range of angles, from the historical to the experiential, with a scientific analysis that reveals new truths about wha ..." |
 | | Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write An Autobiography in Essays (Hardback) by Claire Messud Hardcover, Published 2020 by Ww Norton & Co, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-324-00675-6, ISBN: 1-324-00675-7 |
 | | The Woman Upstairs(Reprint) (Vintage Contemporaries) by Claire Messud Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2014 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-307-74376-3, ISBN: 0-307-74376-4 "Pub Date: 2014-02-04 Pages: 320 Language: English Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing ... A New York Times Book Review Notable Book & bull; A Washington Post Top Ten Book of the Year & bull; A Chicago Tribune Noteworthy Book & bull; A Huffington Post Best Book & bull; A Boston Globe Best Book of the Year & bull; A Kirkus Best Fiction Book & bull; A Goodreads Best BookNora Eldridge is a reliable. but unremarkable. friend and neighbor. ..." |
 | | The Woman Upstairs(1st Edition) by Claire Messud Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2013 by Knopf Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-0-307-59690-1, ISBN: 0-307-59690-7 "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 school teacher in Cambridge, Massachusetts, long ago compromised her dream to be a successful artist, mother and lover. She has instead become the “woman upstairs,” a reliable friend and neighbor always on th ..." |
 | | The Emperor's Children(1st Edition) (Vintage) by Claire Messud, Claire Dk Publishingmessud Paperback, 478 Pages, Published 2007 by Vintage Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-0-307-27666-7, ISBN: 0-307-27666-X "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, celebrated intellectual and journalist—and her two closest friends from Brown, Danielle, a quietly appealing television producer, and Julius, a cash-strapped ..." |
 | | The Emperor's Children(1st Edition) by Claire Messud, Ian Klaus Hardcover, 448 Pages, Published 2006 by Knopf Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-0-307-26419-0, ISBN: 0-307-26419-X "Danielle, a junior television producer, is on the hunt for the documentary idea that will make her reputation; Marina, the beautiful daughter of a famous and wealthy liberal journalist and intellectual, is desperate to prove her worth - while unsure exactly of how this is to be achieved; Julius, a freelance writer of devastating book reviews, is determined to live a fabulous Manhattan lifestyle on a budget of nothing at all. "The Empero ..." |
 | | The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud Paperback, 450 Pages, Published 2006 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-0-330-44905-2, ISBN: 0-330-44905-2 |
 | | The Hunters(1st Edition) by Claire Messud Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2002 by Harvest Books ISBN-13: 978-0-15-600731-3, ISBN: 0-15-600731-2 ""A Simple Tale" is the moving account of Maria Poniatowski, an aging Ukrainian woman who was taken by the Germans for slave labor and eventually relocated to Canada as a displaced person. She struggles to provide her son Radek with every opportunity, but his eventual success increases the gulf between him and his mother. What of the past is she to preserve, and how to avoid letting the weight of that past burden the present? Maria's sto ..." |
 | | The Last Life(1st Edition) A Novel by Claire Messud Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2000 by Mariner Books ISBN-13: 978-0-15-601165-5, ISBN: 0-15-601165-4 "Narrated by a fifteen-year-old girl with a ruthless regard for truth, The Last Life is a beautifully told novel of lies and ghosts, love and honor. Set in colonial Algeria, and in the south of France and New England, it is the tale of the LaBasse family, whose quiet integrity is shattered by the shots from a grandfather's rifle. As their world suddenly begins to crumble, long-hidden shame emerges: a son abandoned by the family before he ..." |
 | | The Last Life(1st Edition) A Novel by Claire Messud Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 1999 by Harcourt ISBN-13: 978-0-15-100471-3, ISBN: 0-15-100471-4 "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 of isolation and exile in one French family. Of course, the adjective French is already inadequate, as at least some of the LaBasses still long for the paradise lost of Algeria. And Alex LaBasse's wife, Carol, try as she might with her Continenta ..." |
 | | Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write by Claire Messud P, Published 2020 by Fleet ISBN-13: 978-0-349-72655-7, ISBN: 0-349-72655-8 |
 | | The Burning Girl A Novel by Claire Messud Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2017 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-63502-7, ISBN: 0-393-63502-3 "A New York Times Bestseller A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist A bracing, hypnotic coming-of-age story about the bond of best friends, from the New York Times best-selling author of The Emperor’s Children.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 en ..." |
 | | Alice Neel(1st Edition) Drawings and Watercolors 1927-1978 by Jeremy Lewison, Claire Messud, Alice Neel Hardcover, 120 Pages, Published 2015 by David Zwirner Books ISBN-13: 978-1-941701-13-3, ISBN: 1-941701-13-2 "Drawing was a fundamental, stand-alone component of New York artist Alice Neel's practice, persistently pursued alongside the figurative painting for which she is primarily known. As a medium, it enabled her to capture the immediacy of her visual experience-whether in front of her sitters or on the city streets-while also affording her a greater sense of experimentation and informality. Neel chose the subjects for both her paintings and ..." |
 | | The Woman Upstairs(Large Print) (Thorndike Press Basic) by Claire Messud Hardcover, 484 Pages, Published 2013 by Thorndike Press Large Print ISBN-13: 978-1-4104-5959-6, ISBN: 1-4104-5959-4 "Relegated to the status of schoolteacher and friendly neighbor after abandoning her dreams of becoming an artist, Nora advocates on behalf of a charismatic Lebanese student and is drawn into the child's family until his artist mother's careless ambition leads to a shattering betrayal. (general fiction)." |
 | | When the World Was Steady(Reprint) (Vintage) by Claire Messud Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2007 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-307-27951-4, ISBN: 0-307-27951-0 "In this highly acclaimed novel by the author of The Emperor’s Children, life isn’t all Emmy and Virginia Simpson might have hoped. When Emmy’s marriage to an Australian man ends, she flees her home in Sydney for the tropical paradise of Bali to “find herself”—only to become embroiled with an eclectic crew of international misfits and smugglers. Her sister Virginia, meanwhile, has never wandered far outside of London. Prim and pious, Vir ..." |
 | | The Emperor's Children(Large Print) by Claire Messud Paperback, 727 Pages, Published 2007 by Large Print Distribution Large Print ISBN-13: 978-1-59413-228-5, ISBN: 1-59413-228-3 "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 City. In this tour de force, the celebrated author Claire Messud brings to life a city, a generation, and the way we live in this moment." |
 | | The Emperor's Children(Large Print) by Claire Messud Hardcover, 728 Pages, Published 2007 by Thorndike Pr Large Print ISBN-13: 978-0-7862-9266-0, ISBN: 0-7862-9266-0 "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 City. In this tour de force, the celebrated author Claire Messud brings to life a city, a generation, and the way we live in this moment." |
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