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Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write: An Autobiography Through Essays by Claire Messud
28.00 NZD
Category: Literature
In her fiction, Claire Messud has specialized in creating unusual female characters with ferocious, imaginative inner lives (Ruth Franklin, New York Times Magazine). Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write opens a window on Messud's own life: a peripatetic upbringing; a warm, complicat ...Show more
The Burning Girl by Claire Messud
35.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
A bracing and hypnotic portrait of the complexities of female friendship from the New York Times bestselling author of The Woman Upstairs. Julia Robinson and Cassie Burnes have been friends since nursery school. They have shared everything, including their desire to escape the stifling limitations of th ...Show more
The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud
28.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Nora Eldridge has always been a good girl: a good daughter, colleague, friend, employee. She teaches at an elementary school where the children and the parents adore her; but her real passion is her art, which she makes alone, unseen. One day Reza Shahid appears in her classroom: eight years old, a perf ...Show more
The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud
37.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
I'm halfway through my life, or maybe more, and I'm finally awake to the fact that it's in my hands alone. I've believed in other people, had faith, been patient, waiting for my moment -- enough, already. Who have I been kidding? Nora Eldridge has always been a good girl: a good daughter, colleague, fri ...Show more
This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud
38.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
June1940. As Paris falls to the Germans, Gaston Cassar - honorable servant of France, devoted husband and father, currently posted as naval attache in Salonica - bids farewell to his beloved wife, aunt and children, placing his faith in God that they will be reunited after the war. But escaping the viol ...Show more
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