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My Old Sweetheart

Susanna Moore

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English
Vintage Books
01 December 2011
""Susanna Moore's novel astonished me--one of those brilliant objects that come along only rarely, all light on clear water, and then one realizes the faster currents underneath, the terrible swiftness of sex and time. ""

--Joan Didion

In this mesmerizing novel, Susanna Moore displays a naturalist's eye for the landscape of her native Hawaii and an uncanny sensitivity to the despairing love between mothers and daughters. Lily Shields grows up amid the fragrance of night-jasmine and burning sugar cane, and the heady atmosphere of her mother's madness. For if Anna Shields is an island unto herself--fragile, glamorous, and fearfully needy--Lily is the bridge that connects her to reality.

But now Lily is a young woman and a mother herself, self-exiled from Hawaii but still attached to Anna's tragedy. And as she tries to untangle those threads of love and loyalty, Moore gives us a novel of shimmering beauty and sadness. My Old Sweetheart is a small classic, perfectly formed and mysteriously wise.

""Susanna Moore is a gifted and compelling novelist . . .in possession of her own unique voice.""

--The New York Times Book Review

""I can't recall another novel like this about mothers and daughters. . . . Lily's mysterious, half-told tale delighted and touched me."" --Susan Lydon, Village Voice
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Imprint:   Vintage Books
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 202mm,  Width: 133mm,  Spine: 15mm
Weight:   223g
ISBN:   9780679776413
ISBN 10:   0679776419
Series:   Vintage Contemporaries
Pages:   224
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Susanna Mooreis the author of the novels The Life of Objects,The Big Girls, One Last Look, In the Cut, Sleeping Beauties, The Whiteness of Bones,andMy Old Sweetheart,and two books of nonfiction,Light Years- A Girlhood in Hawai'iandI Myself Have Seen It- The Myth of Hawai'i. She lives in New York City.

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