When the World Was Steady: A Novel

Awards:   Short-listed for PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction 1996
Author:   Claire Messud
Publisher:   WW Norton & Co
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9780393355093


Pages:   368
Publication Date:   29 August 2017
Format:   Paperback
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  • Short-listed for PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction 1996

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In this highly acclaimed novel, life isn’t all Emmy and Virginia Simpson anticipated. When Emmy’s marriage ends, she flees her home in Sydney to “find herself” on the island of Bali—only to become embroiled with a crew of international misfits and smugglers. Her prim and pious sister Virginia, meanwhile, has never wandered far outside of London. Struggling to find meaning, Virginia follows her aging mother’s advice to vacation on the Isle of Skye. On these two islands halfway around the world, the middle-aged sisters confront the costs of self-knowledge and their destinies with unexpected consequences.

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Author:   Claire Messud
Publisher:   WW Norton & Co
Imprint:   WW Norton & Co
Dimensions:   Width: 14.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.10cm
Weight:   0.286kg
ISBN:  

9780393355093


ISBN 10:   0393355098
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   29 August 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Assured and engaging. -- James Marcus - New York Times Book Review A beautiful, bittersweet story about the painful cost of self-knowledge and the unpredictability of life. -- Publishers Weekly A tenderly ironic double portrait of two hapless middle-aged English sisters who travel to very different islands. -- Joyce Carol Oates - New York Review of Books As exceptional in quality as it is in content...an outstanding first novel. -- Observer


As exceptional in quality as it is in content...an outstanding first novel. -- Observer A tenderly ironic double portrait of two hapless middle-aged English sisters who travel to very different islands. -- Joyce Carol Oates - New York Review of Books A beautiful, bittersweet story about the painful cost of self-knowledge and the unpredictability of life. -- Publishers Weekly Assured and engaging. -- James Marcus - New York Times Book Review


Assured and engaging.--James Marcus A beautiful, bittersweet story about the painful cost of self-knowledge and the unpredictability of life. A tenderly ironic double portrait of two hapless middle-aged English sisters who travel to very different islands.--Joyce Carol Oates As exceptional in quality as it is in content...an outstanding first novel.


Author Information

Claire Messud is the author of six works of fiction. A recipient of Guggenheim and Radcliffe fellowships and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she teaches at Harvard University and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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