When the World Was Steady by Claire Messud

When the World Was Steady by Claire Messud

In this highly acclaimed novel, life isn’t all Emmy and Virginia Simpson anticipated. When Emmy’s marriage ends, she flees her home in Sydney to “find herself” on the island of Bali—only to become embroiled with a crew of international misfits and smugglers. Her prim and pious sister Virginia, meanwhile, has never wandered far outside of London. Struggling to find meaning, Virginia follows her aging mother’s advice to vacation on the Isle of Skye. On these two islands halfway around the world, the middle-aged sisters confront the costs of self-knowledge and their destinies with unexpected consequences.

Assured and engaging-- James Marcus - New York Times Book Review
A beautiful, bittersweet story about the painful cost of self-knowledge and the unpredictability of life. -- Publishers Weekly
A tenderly ironic double portrait of two hapless middle-aged English sisters who travel to very different islands. -- Joyce Carol Oates - New York Review of Books
As exceptional in quality as it is in content...an outstanding first novel. -- Observer

Claire Messud is the author of six works of fiction. A recipient of Guggenheim and Radcliffe fellowships and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she teaches at Harvard University and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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ISBN 13	9780393355093
ISBN 10	0393355098
Titel	When the World Was Steady
Autor	Claire Messud
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	WW Norton & Co
Erscheinungsjahr	2017-08-29
Seitenanzahl	368
Preise	Short-listed for PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction 1996
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