The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud

The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud

A brilliant novel by Canada's own award-winning Claire Messud, author of the New York Times bestselling The Emperor's Children. The Woman Upstairs is the riveting confession of a woman awakened, transformed and betrayed by passion and the desire for a world beyond her own.
Nora Eldridge, a 37-year-old elementary school teacher in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was on the verge of disappearing into the background until Reza Shahid walked into her classroom. Nora is quickly drawn into the complex world of the Shahid family. Soon she finds herself falling in love with them, separately and together, and happiness shatters her boundaries--until ambition leads to betrayal.
Written with intimacy and piercing emotion, this urgently dispatched story of obsession and artistic fulfillment explores the thrill--and the devastating cost--of giving in to one's passions. The Woman Upstairs is a masterly story of America today, of being a woman and of the exhilarations of love.

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.

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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
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