Claire Messud
Claire Messud is a recipient of Guggenheim and Radcliffe Fellowships and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The author of five other works of fiction including, most recently, The Burning Girl , she lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her family.
Claire Messud is a recipient of Guggenheim and Radcliffe Fellowships and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The author of five other works of fiction including, most recently, The Burning Girl , she lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her family. See less
Claire Messud's Featured Books
Claire Messud book reviews
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The Emperor's Children
Claire Messud's "The Emperor's Children"
Claire Messud's novel, "The Emperor's Children" (2006) is a challenging, if only partially successful, satire of modern urban secularism set in New York City in 2001. In part a comedy of manners and ... Read More
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The Woman Upstairs
A nice "read"
by LL, May 1, 2014
I enjoyed The Woman Upstairs. It was so well-written that it was a quick read. The characters are memorable. Read More
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The Emperor's Children
boring!!!!
by Jtny, Jan 29, 2009
this book has nothing that inspired me... it was boring, tedious and the characters were poor. i didn't care for the characters and their lives...
i read this book because i had to. Read More
