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The Intimates is about Maize and Robbie, who meet in high school and hold fast to each other as they stumble through amorous adventures, first jobs, and complicated relationships with family members here and abroad. It is a powerful and compassionate debut novel that explores the romance of young friendship, the freighted bonds between parents and children, and the thrills and mesmerizing illusions of sex. Lovely, perceptive, funny, and vividly erotic, inThe Intimates, "Sassone has created a friendship so deep, so utterly believable, that you feel jealous of Maize and Robbie’s closeness---and of Sassone’s easy talent" (New York Press).
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Ralph Sassone has an M.F.A. from Brown University. He has written and edited for a number of publications includingThe New York Times, The Village Voice Literary Supplement, and Details, and he has taught writing at Brown, Haverford College, and Vassar. He lives in New York City.The Intimates is his first novel.
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