Books by Carole Maso and Complete Book Reviews

Carole Maso, Author . Counterpoint $24 (192p) ISBN 978-1-58243-089-8
This impressionistic book recaps some of the more infamous events of the Mexican artist's life. Maso (The Art Lover; Aureole) relies on Kahlo's diary, as well as on letters, medical reports and Hayden Herrera's biography, Frida, and...
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Carole Maso, Author Dalkey Archive Press $19.95 (274p) ISBN 978-1-56478-029-4
As in her innovative, passionate previous novels, Ghost Dance and The Art Lover , Maso's third work of fiction presents heartbreakingly familiar emotions in an utterly original form. Reminiscent of Joyce's Ulysses , the book records one special and...
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Carole Maso, Author Dalkey Archive Press $19.95 (201p) ISBN 978-1-56478-045-4
Catherine, 33, beautiful and vibrant, bisexual (though preferring women) and passionately driven as a writer, drifts through the bars and bedrooms of Vence on the French Riviera seeking sexual partners. Maso's ( Ghost Dance ) enchanting fourth novel
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Carole Maso, Author Dalkey Archive Press $12.95 (220p) ISBN 978-1-56478-074-4
Maso's third novel portrays a dying professor of comparative literature who reflects on the 39 years of her emotionally and intellectually rich life. (May)
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Carole Maso, Author Counterpoint LLC $28.95 (208p) ISBN 978-1-58243-063-8
""Line by line I have tried to get closer to an erotic language...and enter a sexual reverie on the level of language."" Thus Maso, author of six novels (Ghost Dance; Defiance) and a powerful presence in the New York literary world, describes her...
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Carole Maso, Author Ecco Press $22 (214p) ISBN 978-0-88001-482-3
Showing affinities with Jeanette Winterson, whose last novel (Art and Lies) was also her most experimental, Maso's fifth book (after The American Woman in the Chinese Hat) is a lesbian, erotic fantasia so drunk with language games, impressionistic...
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Carole Maso, Author Counterpoint LLC $24 (240p) ISBN 978-1-58243-088-1
In lush, elliptical language, Maso (The Art Lover, etc.) charts her first experience with pregnancy and new motherhood in a journal that reads like prose poetry, couching the mysterious experience in surprising forms, syntaxes and imagery. She...
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Carole Maso. Counterpoint, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-1-58243-818-4
In Maso’s first novel since 1998’s Defiance, a mother’s fears for her young daughter are revealed through dreams and surreal events woven haphazardly between reality and illusion. After a great wind, an enormous winged creature appears in the house;
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Maso, Author, Carole Maso, Author North Point Press $18.95 (249p) ISBN 978-0-86547-427-7
Caroline, a novelist and poet, returns from an isolated artists colony to Manhattan, where her widowed, art-historian father has recently died. As one strand of the narrative follows her rediscovery of the city--and of a friend diagnosed with AIDS--a
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