When the World Was Steady - Softcover

Messud, Claire

 
9780393355093: When the World Was Steady

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In this highly acclaimed novel, life isn t all Emmy and Virginia Simpson anticipated. When Emmy s marriage ends, she flees her home in Sydney to find herself on the island of Bali only to become embroiled with a crew of international misfits and smugglers. Her prim and pious sister Virginia, meanwhile, has never wandered far outside of London. Struggling to find meaning, Virginia follows her aging mother s advice to vacation on the Isle of Skye. On these two islands halfway around the world, the middle-aged sisters confront the costs of self-knowledge and their destinies with unexpected consequences.

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Claire Messud is the author of six works of fiction. A recipient of Guggenheim and Radcliffe Fellowships and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she teaches at Harvard University and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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