The Last Life
The Last Life
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The Last Life by Claire Messud
Moving between colonial Algeria, the south of France, and New England, The Last Life is Claire Messud's masterly (Wall Street Journal) sophomore novel of lies and ghosts, love and honor. When shots from a grandfather's rifle shatter the LaBasse family's quiet integrity, long-hidden shame emerges: a son abandoned by the family before he was even born, a mother whose identity is not what she has claimed, a father whose act of defiance brings Hotel Bellevue--the family business--to its knees. Unforgettably narrated by a fifteen-year-old girl with a ruthless regard for truth, The Last Life is a phenomenally controlled tour de force (Sarah Kerr, Vogue).
Messud textures her novel with all the sensory pleasures that bind us to life, and fills it with characters who helplessly respond to each other's unspoken signals and nuances.--The New Yorker
Original, intense, and gripping.--Gabriele Annan, New York Review of Books
Moving between colonial Algeria, the south of France, and New England, The Last Life is Claire Messud's masterly (Wall Street Journal) sophomore novel of lies and ghosts, love and honor. When shots from a grandfather's rifle shatter the LaBasse family's quiet integrity, long-hidden shame emerges: a son abandoned by the family before he was even born, a mother whose identity is not what she has claimed, a father whose act of defiance brings Hotel Bellevue--the family business--to its knees. Unforgettably narrated by a fifteen-year-old girl with a ruthless regard for truth, The Last Life is a phenomenally controlled tour de force (Sarah Kerr, Vogue).
Messud textures her novel with all the sensory pleasures that bind us to life, and fills it with characters who helplessly respond to each other's unspoken signals and nuances.--The New Yorker
Original, intense, and gripping.--Gabriele Annan, New York Review of Books
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 | 9780156011655 |
| ISBN 10 | 0156011654 |
| Title | The Last Life |
| Author | Claire Messud |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Mariner Books |
| Year published | 2000-09-28 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |