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- Artikelzustand
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Special Attributes
- 1st Edition
- ISBN
- 9780307596901
- EAN
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0307596907
ISBN-13
9780307596901
eBay Product ID (ePID)
143591477
Product Key Features
Book Title
Woman Upstairs
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2013
Topic
Psychological, Urban, Contemporary Women, Literary
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
18.2 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2012-017806
Reviews
"A self-described 'good girl' lifts her mask in Messud's new novel. 'How angry am I?' Nora Eldridge rhetorically asks in her opening sentence. 'You don't want to know.' Nora is furious with herself: for failing to commit to being an artist, for settling for life as a third-grade teacher, for lacking the guts even to be openly enraged. Instead she is the woman upstairs, 'whose trash is always tidy, who smiles brightly in the stairwell.' So when the exotic Shahid family enters her life, Nora sees them as saviors. Reza is in her class; after another student attacks and calls the half-Lebanese boy 'a terrorist,' she meets his Italian mother, Sirena, the kind of bold, assertive artist Nora longs to be. . . . Nora's untrustworthy narration, a feminine counterpoint to the rantings of Dostoevsky's Underground Man, is an astonishing feat of creative imagination: at once self-lacerating and self-pitying, containing enough truth to induce squirms. Messud persuasively plunges us into the tortured psyche of a conflicted soul . . . Brilliant and terrifying." - Kirkus (starred review), "With exhilarating velocity, fury, and wit, the superlative Messud immolates an iconic figure-the good, quiet, self-sacrificing woman-in this acid bath of a novel, while taking on the vicissitudes of family life and the paradoxes of art. Nora, our archly funny, venomous, and raging narrator, recounts her thirty-seventh year, when she was living alone and teaching third grade after the death of her mother. Nora longs to make art but hasn't mustered the necessary conviction. Enter the Paris-based Shahids. Reza, her new student, is a magnet for bullies stirred up by post-9/11 xenophobia. His Palestinian Lebanese father is a prominent academic spending a year at Harvard. His Italian mother, Sirena, is an artist in need of a studio mate. She promptly recruits Nora. A confident and passionate conduit for mythological powers, Sirena creates 'lush gardens and jungles made out of household items and refuse.' Nora, a veritable daughter of Ibsen, builds dollhouses-replicas of the rooms occupied by artists ranging from Emily Dickinson to Edie Sedgwick. Messud's scorching social anatomy, red-hot psychology, galvanizing story, and incandescent language make for an all-circuits-firing novel about enthrallment, ambition, envy, and betrayal. A tour de force portraying a no longer invisible or silent 'woman upstairs.'" -Donna Seaman, Booklist (starred review) "Claire Messud's daring, Jamesian new novel takes so many chances and provokes so many questions. . . . Messud is a truth teller about the ruthlessness of art [and] makes a key point about creative work: It means smashing boundaries, using imagination to remake the world. . . . Messud is such a gifted painter of our choices and their consequences. She's never gone this deep before in showing us how our reality and our pipe dreams intersect. Her portrait of Nora Eldridge, a decent woman who has perhaps crossed the wrong bridges in her life, would move stone. What's going to become of Nora? What will the Shahids do to her? The Woman Upstairs is Claire Messud's greatest novel." -Dennis Haritou, Three Guys One Book "A self-described 'good girl' lifts her mask in Messud's new novel. 'How angry am I?' Nora Eldridge rhetorically asks in her opening sentence. 'You don't want to know.' Nora is furious with herself: for failing to commit to being an artist, for settling for life as a third-grade teacher, for lacking the guts even to be openly enraged. Instead she is the woman upstairs, 'whose trash is always tidy, who smiles brightly in the stairwell.' So when the exotic Shahid family enters her life, Nora sees them as saviors. Reza is in her class; after another student attacks and calls the half-Lebanese boy 'a terrorist,' she meets his Italian mother, Sirena, the kind of bold, assertive artist Nora longs to be. . . . Nora's untrustworthy narration, a feminine counterpoint to the rantings of Dostoevsky's Underground Man, is an astonishing feat of creative imagination: at once self-lacerating and self-pitying, containing enough truth to induce squirms. Messud persuasively plunges us into the tortured psyche of a conflicted soul . . . Brilliant and terrifying." - Kirkus (starred review)
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Synopsis
From the New York Times best-selling author of The Emperor's Children, a masterly new novel: the riveting confession of a woman awakened, transformed and betrayed by a desire for a world beyond her own. Nora Eldridge, an elementary school teacher in Cambridge, Massachusetts, long ago compromised her dream to be a successful artist, mother and lover. She has instead become the "woman upstairs," a reliable friend and neighbor always on the fringe of others' achievements. Then into her life arrives the glamorous and cosmopolitan Shahids--her new student Reza Shahid, a child who enchants as if from a fairy tale, and his parents: Skandar, a dashing Lebanese professor who has come to Boston for a fellowship at Harvard, and Sirena, an effortlessly alluring Italian artist. When Reza is attacked by schoolyard bullies, Nora is drawn deep into the complex world of the Shahid family; she finds herself falling in love with them, separately and together. Nora's happiness explodes her boundaries, and she discovers in herself an unprecedented ferocity--one that puts her beliefs and her sense of self at stake. Told with urgency, intimacy and piercing emotion, this brilliant novel of passion and artistic fulfillment explores the intensity, thrill--and the devastating cost--of embracing an authentic life.
LC Classification Number
PS3563.E8134W66 2013
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