Claire Messud’s novel, The Woman Upstairs, plays with the genre of the unreliable narrator, as it is told from the point of view of a middle-aged teacher whose seemingly mild-mannered affect is a veneer that hides oceans of rage and fury. As this woman finds herself enmeshed in the lives of a family of glamorous and seductively alive intellectuals, we watch her descend into obsession and unhinged . Messud is an immensely talented writer, and in Nora she gives us a compelling, complex, and unforgettable narrator. "The Woman Upstairs" is a brilliantly paced story of fearsome love and obsessive longing, and the boundaries and sacrifices of what is to be a woman and to be an artist in the world." --Amanda Bullock, "Everyday eBook"/5(1K). Messud’s cosmopolitan sensibilities infuse her fiction with a refreshing cultural fluidity The Woman Upstairs brims with energy and ideas.” —NPR. “ [Messud] knows how to make fiction out of the clash of civilizations. Her heroines inhabit the inky space between continents, physical and generational/5().
About The Woman Upstairs. 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. Claire Messud's new novel, The Woman Upstairs, delves into the inner life of the quiet, friendly — and secretly furious — woman upstairs, a frustrated artist named Nora who becomes obsessed. The Woman Upstairs is a novel by Claire Messud that was published in by Alfred A. Knopf. Set in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the novel is told from the point of view of Nora Elridge, an elementary school teacher reflecting back on her life in when she became enchanted with the Shahids, a family of intellectuals she met while teaching their young son Reza.
Messud’s cosmopolitan sensibilities infuse her fiction with a refreshing cultural fluidity The Woman Upstairs brims with energy and ideas.” —NPR. “ [Messud] knows how to make fiction out of the clash of civilizations. Her heroines inhabit the inky space between continents, physical and generational. Claire Messud, however, is having none of it. The author's fourth novel, The Emperor's Children, was longlisted for the Man Booker prize and The Woman Upstairs, her fifth, is just as blazing and. Claire Messud’s novel, The Woman Upstairs, plays with the genre of the unreliable narrator, as it is told from the point of view of a middle-aged teacher whose seemingly mild-mannered affect is a veneer that hides oceans of rage and fury. As this woman finds herself enmeshed in the lives of a family of glamorous and seductively alive intellectuals, we watch her descend into obsession and unhinged attachment.
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