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A Dream Life by Claire Messud
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
When the Armstrong family moves from New York at the dawn of the 1970s, Australia feels, to Alice Armstrong, like the end of the earth. Residing in a grand manor on the glittering Sydney Harbour, her family finds their life has turned upside down. As she navigates this strange new world, Alice must fin ...Show more
Hunters, The by Claire Messud
$19.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Two short novels by the author of The Last Life. A Simple Tale tells the story of Maria Poniatowski, her childhood in the Ukraine, her incarceration in a Nazi prison camp in Poland, and her life as an emigrant, working as a domestic in Toronto. Maria is now old, but not yet retired; her sole client i ...Show more
Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write - An Autobiography Through Essays by Claire Messud
$30.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Arranged in three parts, Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write opens with Claire's most personal essays - reflections on a childhood divided between cultures, and between dueling models of womanhood. It is here, in these early years, that we see the seeds of Messud's inquiry into th ...Show more
The Burning Girl by Claire Messud
$27.99 AUD
Category: 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 Emperor's Children by Claire Messud
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
It is 2001 in Manhattan, and three thirty-year-old friends are seeking their fortunes. Danielle, a television producer, is on the hunt for the documentary idea that will make her reputation; Marina, the beautiful daughter of a famous and wealthy liberal journalist, is desperate to prove her worth; Juliu ...Show more
The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud
$22.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
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
$30.00 AUD
Category: 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
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
*A TIME MAGAZINE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024 **AN OPRAH DAILY MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024**AN OBSERVER 2024 PICK**A GUARDIAN 2024 PICK* 'One of those rare novels which a reader doesn't merely read but lives through with the characters . . . Claire Messud is a magnificent storyteller' Yiyun LiJune 1 ...Show more
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