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Monkeys

By Susan Minot

By Susan Minot

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Paperback $15.95

Aug 08, 2000 | ISBN 9780375708367

Monkeys by Susan Minot
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Aug 08, 2000 | ISBN 9780375708367

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In this luminous story of family life–the first novel by Susan Minot, author of the highly acclaimed Evening–the seven Vincent children follow their Catholic mother to Mass and spend Thanksgiving with their father’s aging parents who come from a world of New England priviledge. As they grow older, they meet with the perplexing lives of adults. Susan Minot writes with delicacy and a tremendous gift for the details that decorate domestic life, and when tragedy strikes she beautifully mines the children’s tenderness for each other, and their aching guardianship of what they have.

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About Susan Minot

SUSAN MINOT is an award-winning novelist, short-story writer, poet, and screenwriter. Her first novel, Monkeys, was published in a dozen countries and won the Prix Femina Étranger in France. Her novel Evening was a worldwide best seller and became a major motion picture. She… More about Susan Minot

Product Details

Category: Literary Fiction | Women’s Fiction

Paperback | $15.95
Published by Vintage
Aug 08, 2000 | 176 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375708367
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Praise

"Minot’s prose possesses a thrilling eloquence, a heartbreaking clarity."–Newsday

"Not since J. D. Salinger has an American writer so feelingly evoked the special affections and loyalties that may develop among children in a large family."–The New York Times Book Review

"Striking and original…. Minot chronicles the mundane and miraculous moments that characterize family life, in prose that is exactingly realistic, yet delicately lyrical…. Few novels have so powerfully displayed the collective unity–and joy–of family life."–Chicago Tribune

"Susan Minot’s funny, wry and profoundly moving novel of a large and gawky family in Massachusetts is full of quiet surprises…. Minot is masterful at showing us the chaos of a young family forming and reforming itself. But it is the absolute simplicity of her observation–always selective, often eccentric–that astounds us for its clarity time after time."–San Francisco Chronicle

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