Susan Minot
1) Rapture
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Using a single interlude-a brief encounter of old lovers, two bodies entwined on a bed at midday-Minot defines the distance that erupts at what seems to be the height of connection, as well as the extent to which the senses deceive, and the intensely private eroticism of fantasy and the imagination.
Minot's lovers are mesmerizing in their individual journeys-one moving toward a kind of holy consummation, the other toward abnegation and blank despair....
2) Monkeys
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In this luminous story of family life-the first novel by Susan Minot, author of the highly acclaimed Evening-the seven Vincent children follow their Catholic mother to Mass and spend Thanksgiving with their father's aging parents who come from a world of New England privilege. As they grow older, they meet with the perplexing lives of adults.
Susan Minot writes with delicacy and a tremendous gift for the details that decorate domestic life, and when...
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The author of “Monkeys and Evening” focuses her observant eye and lyrical voice on the delicate emotional negotiations of young New Yorkers. As in a series of deceptively simple watercolors, these stories uncover small moments that yield larger truths-about the ways in which women and men come together and come apart again, about the disappointments and hopes of lovers who know what they want but don't always know how to keep. A deeply poignant...