Susanna Moore is from Hawaii but now lives in New York City. She is the author of the novels In the Cut, The Whiteness of Bones, Sleeping Beauties, and My Old Sweetheart, which won the Ernest Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for First Fiction, and the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. A nonfiction travel book, I Myself Have Seen It, will be published by the National Geographic Society in 2003.
“An utterly wonderful novel. . .I envy everyone who enter, for the
first time, its world.” --Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post
Book World
"A remarkably sly balancing act: a deeply sensual, richly imagined
coming-of-age story that manages to use a wickedly satiric portrait
of the uppercrust in the Manhattan of the early 1980s." --The
Philadelphia Inquirer
"An alluring novel, sure in its embrace of the reader. . .who is
swep away by Moore's eye for detail."--Newsday
"Ms. Moore possesses a finely tuned radar system for phoniness and
pretension, and many of her cameo portraits glitter with a
Waugh-like black humor. Indeed, she demonstrates in this novel that
she not only has a gift for delineating the tragedies of domestic
life...but that she also has a capacity for comic invention, for
showing what happens when our vanities run amok."--Michiko
Kakutani, The New York Times
"An engrossing, sensual novel whose characters seem to live from
the moment of their introduction and whose plot is both believable
and satisfying. In short, The Whiteness of Bones is the kind of
book you'll read, re-read, and remember."--West Coast Review of
Books
“So evocative you can almost feel the mud between your toes. . . .
Moore makes her story as real and mysterious as any island legend,
as powerful as the scent of the white ginger flowers.” –Kirkus
Reviews (starred)
“Moore’s controlled prose maintains her ambitiously serious intent.
As much as women love Colette’s and Virginia Woolf’s portraits of
adored mothers and their daughters, many will identify more with
this wounded pair.” –Ms.
“Spare but lyrical. . . . An engrossing novel, profoundly
disturbing in its message of feminine guilt.” –Publishers
Weekly
“A remarkably sly balancing act: a deeply sensual, richly imagined
coming-of-age story that manages to use a wickedly satiric portrait
of the uppercrust in the Manhattan of the early 1980s.” –The
Philadelphia Inquirer
“An engrossing, sensual novel whose characters seem to live from
the moment of their introduction and whose plot is both believable
and satisfying. In short, The Whiteness of Bones is the kind of
book you’ll read, re-read, and remember.” –West Coast Review of
Books
"An utterly wonderful novel. . .I envy everyone who enter, for the
first time, its world." --Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post
Book World
"A remarkably sly balancing act: a deeply sensual, richly
imagined coming-of-age story that manages to use a wickedly satiric
portrait of the uppercrust in the Manhattan of the early 1980s."
--The Philadelphia Inquirer
"An alluring novel, sure in its embrace of the reader. .
.who is swep away by Moore's eye for detail."--Newsday
"Ms. Moore possesses a finely tuned radar system for
phoniness and pretension, and many of her cameo portraits glitter
with a Waugh-like black humor. Indeed, she demonstrates in this
novel that she not only has a gift for delineating the tragedies of
domestic life...but that she also has a capacity for comic
invention, for showing what happens when our vanities run
amok."--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"An engrossing, sensual novel whose characters seem to live
from the moment of their introduction and whose plot is both
believable and satisfying. In short, The Whiteness of Bones
is the kind of book you'll read, re-read, and remember."--West
Coast Review of Books
"So evocative you can almost feel the mud between your
toes. . . . Moore makes her story as real and mysterious as any
island legend, as powerful as the scent of the white ginger
flowers." -Kirkus Reviews (starred)
"Moore's controlled prose maintains her ambitiously serious intent.
As much as women love Colette's and Virginia Woolf's portraits of
adored mothers and their daughters, many will identify more with
this wounded pair." -Ms.
"Spare but lyrical. . . . An engrossing novel, profoundly
disturbing in its message of feminine guilt." -Publishers
Weekly
"A remarkably sly balancing act: a deeply sensual, richly imagined
coming-of-age story that manages to use a wickedly satiric portrait
of the uppercrust in the Manhattan of the early 1980s." -The
Philadelphia Inquirer
"An engrossing, sensual novel whose characters seem to live
from the moment of their introduction and whose plot is both
believable and satisfying. In short, The Whiteness of Bones
is the kind of book you'll read, re-read, and remember." -West
Coast Review of Books
Mamie Clarke grows up on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, desperate for the attention of her remote mother. Naive and inexperienced at 21, Mamie goes to live with her Aunt Alysse in the decadent milieu of the idle rich in 1980s Manhattan. ``This is an engrossing novel, profoundly disturbing in its message of feminine guilt,'' declared PW. (Feb.)
Ask a Question About this Product More... |