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The Woman Upstairs Hardcover - 2013

by Claire Messud


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CLAIRE MESSUD's last novel, The Emperor's Children, was a New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Washington Post Best Book of the Year, and was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize. Her first novel, When the World Was Steady, and her book of novellas, The Hunters, were finalists for the PEN/Faulkner Award. Her second novel, The Last Life, won Britain's Encore Award. Her short fiction has been included in the Penguin Book of Canadian Short Stories, edited by Jane Urquhart. Raised in Sydney, Australia and Toronto, where she attended the Toronto French School and UTS, Messud was a judge for the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize. She lives in Cambridge, MA with her family.
 

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  • Title The Woman Upstairs
  • Author Claire Messud
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Knopf Canada, New York
  • Date 2013-04-30
  • ISBN 9780307401168 / 0307401162
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 
LONGLISTED 2013 – Scotiabank Giller Prize
FINALIST 2013 – LA Times Book Prize

 
“An extraordinary novelist.... Messud’s ending is a triumph, pitch perfect. Nora’s frustration is grating, the way real-life frustration is. But in this novel, frustration makes way for something new, something beautiful.”
The Gazette
 
“A compelling new cerebral melodrama.... Messud is a sharp, nuanced storyteller.... Messud’s Nora is an original—a caustic vessel for exploring obsession, dependence, loneliness and creative expression.... The novel’s resolution...packs a quiet, shocking, but satisfying wallop.”
Maclean’s
 
“In Nora, Messud has produced a clear-eyed, unsentimental and compelling portrait of an ordinary person quietly revealing their faults, uncertainties and insecurities.... Messud is a breathtaking writer—exemplified in the way she brings even the most peripheral characters to life in one swift, all-encompassing stroke.... The Woman Upstairs is ultimately a beautiful—and beautifully sustained—howl of fresh, fierce, furious rage.”
The Independent 

About the author

CLAIRE MESSUD's last novel, The Emperor's Children, was a New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Washington Post Best Book of the Year, and was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize. Her first novel, When the World Was Steady, and her book of novellas, The Hunters, were finalists for the PEN/Faulkner Award. Her second novel, The Last Life, won Britain's Encore Award. Her short fiction has been included in the Penguin Book of Canadian Short Stories, edited by Jane Urquhart. Raised in Sydney, Australia and Toronto, where she attended the Toronto French School and UTS, Messud was a judge for the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize. She lives in Cambridge, MA with her family.

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