One Last Look

Intriguing. . . . Moore . . . conjure[s] the heat and light and color of this hot, beautiful land, its smells and sensual allure. A compelling and richly textured story. --The New York Times Moore is a wonderful writer with a sensuous style. . . . [One Last Look] takes on the quality of a feverish dream. --The Baltimore Sun How marvelous is a book that educates but does not preach. . . . [A] cautionary tale for smart women . . . and dumb men . . . but the beauty of the prose and the complexity of the narrative here far outweigh any edifying messages. --The Washington Post A beauitiful and powerful novel that records one woman s experience while illuminating a world of imperial folly and colonial rapacity and stupidity. --The Boston Globe Vertinginous. . . .The sense of passing through a distant, phantasmagorical place with a curious and perceptive guide, is undeniable. --The Seattle Times It is the secret world of women that Moore excels at painting, a world of unspoken truths and oblique connections. Time Out New York [A] stranger, extoic, ungraspable place. . . . Moore is an extraordinarily gifted conjurer of weather, smells and sickness; riches, bliasters and bugs, her words steam directly off the page. --Chicago Tribune The descriptive prose leaves one feeling the hot, dusty days and torrential monsoons....Moore s image of saffron-tinged India will have readers pulling out their Baedeker s and booking passage on the next ship sailing for foreign climes. Library Journal [C]aptivating...fascinating...As Eleanor writes in her diary, The writing of women is always read in the hope of discovering women s secrets; Eleanor and her creator reveal just enough glimpses to keep readers transfixed. Publishers Weekly [R]ich, lush...and wonderfully satisfying. Kirkus Reviews [E]leanor is mesmerizing.... Booklist [E]vocative... Harper s Bazaar An enormous accomplishment vivid and precise, evocative and alluring, reflective of impressive scholarship. . . . Moore is an extraordinarily gifted conjurer of weather, smells and sickness; riches, blisters and bugs. Her words stream directly off the page. The Chicago Tribune Splendid. . . . A rueful farewell to an age of conquest and colonization that despite its period trappings looks peculiarly like our own. A deeply moving story of empowerment and loss. O, The Oprah Magazine Lyrical. . . . [Filled with] lushly described landscape and coyly revealed Victorian sexual eccentricities. Entertainment Weekly What Moore has done is to squeeze out of her peppery observations a nascent feminism and a covert sexuality. She heats Eden up. --The New York Times Book Review Chilling. . . . [Moore] gives Eleanor a rich interior life and a mordant humor. --Vogue [Moore] excels at evoking time and place the dresses and the narrative voice just so, the moans of the mango bird in the tree exquisitely described. The New Yorker Breathtaking. . . . An engaging, luscious read. The characters are richly drawn . . . [and] rise effortlessly from the page. The Oregonian The accomplishment of One Last Look is a gradual unfolding of sensual detail that is truly transporting. Los Angeles Times Book Review Sensual steamy prose . . . masterfully evok[es] the likely sounds, smells and sights of early-19th-century life in colonial India. Houston Chronicle It is the secret world of women that Moore excels at painting, a world of unspoken truths and oblique connections. . . . It is a measure of Moore s skill that they never are [discovered]. Time Out New York