Claire Messud
Born
in Greenwich, Connecticut, The United States
October 08, 1966
Website
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The Woman Upstairs
43 editions
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2013
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The Emperor's Children
21 editions
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2006
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The Burning Girl
32 editions
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2017
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This Strange Eventful History
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The Last Life
27 editions
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1999
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When the World Was Steady
24 editions
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1994
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A Dream Life (Short Books by Great Women Writers)
4 editions
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2021
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The Hunters
16 editions
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2001
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Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write: An Autobiography in Essays
11 editions
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2020
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The Professor's History
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“Above all, in my anger, I was sad. Isn't that always the way, that at the heart of the fire is a frozen kernel of sorrow that the fire is trying -- valiantly, fruitlessly -- to eradicate.”
― The Woman Upstairs
― The Woman Upstairs
“It's the strangest thing about being human: to know so much, to communicate so much, and yet always to fall so drastically short of clarity, to be, in the end, so isolate and inadequate. Even when people try to say things, they say them poorly or obliquely, or they outright lie, sometimes because they're lying to you, but as often because they're lying to themselves.”
― The Woman Upstairs
― The Woman Upstairs
“I'm a good girl. I'm a nice girl. I'm a straight-A, strait-laced, good daughter, good career girl, and I never stole anybody's boyfriend and I never ran out on a girlfriend, and I put up with my parents' shit and brother's shit and I'm not a girl anyhow, I'm over forty fucking years old, and I'm good at my job and I'm great with kids and I held my mother's hand when she died,after four years of holding her hand while she was dying, and I speak to my father ever day on the telephone -- every day, mind you, and what kind of weather do you have on your side of the river, because here it's pretty gray and a big muggy too? It was supposed to say "Great Artist" on my tombstone, but if I died right now it would say "Such a good teacher/daughter/friend" instead; and what I really want to shout, and want in big letters on that grave, too, is FUCK YOU ALL.”
― The Woman Upstairs
― The Woman Upstairs
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