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Carole Maso
Ava Klein, thirty-nine, lover of life, world traveler, professor of comparative literature, is dying. From her hospital bed on this, her last day on earth, she makes one final ecstatic…
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Ava Klein, thirty-nine, lover of life, world traveler, professor of comparative literature, is dying.
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A mediation on life and death, being and non-being, and the intense mystery and beauty of existence, Maso’s new novel follows a mother and child as they roam through a…
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A series of prose poems celebrating the life of artist Frida Kahlo, this title brings together biographical details, letters, medical documents and diaries into a biographical meditation on one of…
Originally published in 1986, Ghost Dance is the first in a line of relentlessly experimental and highly esteemed works by Maso. In her elegy for a family broken apart and…
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This biographical meditation explores the life of one of the 20th century’s most compelling and famous artists, Frida Kahlo (1907-1954). The prose poem brings together parts of Kahlo’s biography, her…
A poetic memoir of the writer’s pregnancy and the birth of her daughter, Rose, musing on brand-new motherhood and the tumult of emotions that follow a birth.
Carole Maso’s stunning, erotic fourth novel chronicles the dark, irresistible adventures of an American writer named Catherine who has come to France to live. Set into motion by a single…
Ecstatic essays from the new standard bearer for experimental belles lettres.. In this groundbreaking work of ecstatic criticism, Carole Maso shows why she has risen, over the past fifteen years…
Intimate and erotic celebration of desire from one of America’s most innovative and daring writers.
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An intense, incantatory, erotic novel … An exquisitely calibrated evocation of longing and lust. -Vogue
Abandoned by her lover of ten years and devastated by the painful death of her…
Carole Maso (Brown University)
While her father and best friend are dying, a young American woman tries to find the limits of love and the power of art in the face of the inevitable.
Mary Campbell-Sposito, CANIS MAJOR: Introducing Raymond Queneau/Gilbert Sorrentino, Variations for Raymond Queneau/* Raymond Queneau, Interviews with Georges Charbonnier – No. 5?/Raymond Queneau, Technique of the Novel/Raymond Queneau, From Children of…
