The Woman Upstairs
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The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Told with urgency, intimacy, and piercing emotion, this New York Times bestselling novel is the riveting confession of a woman awakened, transformed, and abandoned by a desire for a world beyond her own.A New York Times Book Review Notable Book * A Washington Post Top Ten Book of the Year * A Chicago Tribune Noteworthy Book * A Huffington Post Best Book * A Boston Globe Best Book of the Year * A Kirkus Best Fiction Book * A Goodreads Best Book
"Exhilarating... Ingenious... an intricate puzzle of self-belief and self-doubt." --The New York Times Book Review
Nora Eldridge is a reliable, but unremarkable, friend and neighbor, always on the fringe of other people's achievements. But the arrival of the Shahid family--dashing Skandar, a Lebanese scholar, glamorous Sirena, an Italian artist, and their son, Reza--draws her into a complex and exciting new world. Nora's happiness pushes her beyond her boundaries, until Sirena's careless ambition leads to a shattering betrayal.
Claire Messud was born in 1966 in the United States. She received her education at Yale and Cambridge. When the World Was Steady, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Prize in 1996, and The Last Life, a well appreciated novel that has been translated into multiple languages, are two of her novels.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780307743763 |
| ISBN 10 | 0307743764 |
| Title | The Woman Upstairs |
| Author | Claire Messud |
| Series | Vintage Contemporaries |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2014-02-04 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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