Innocents and Others - Softcover

Spiotta, Dana

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1509839143 ISBN 13: 9781509839148

Publisher: Picador, 2017

Synopsis

‘Spiotta is a wonder.’ – George Saunders, author of Lincoln in the Bardo

Meadow Mori and Carrie Wexler grew up together in Los Angeles, and both became film-makers.

Meadow makes challenging documentaries; Carrie makes successful feature films with a feminist slant. The two friends have everything in common - except their views on sex, power, movie-making and morality. And yet their loyalty trumps their different approaches to film and to life.

Until, one day, a mysterious woman with a unique ability to cold-call and seduce powerful men over the phone - not through sex, but through listening - becomes the subject of one of Meadow's documentaries. Her downfall, and what makes her so extraordinarily moving, is that she pretends to be someone she is not. The fallout from this challenges their friendship like nothing before.

Heart-breaking and insightful, Innocents and Others by Dana Spiotta is an astonishing novel about friendship, identity, loneliness and art.

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Meadow Mori and Carrie Wexler grew up together in Los Angeles, and both became film-makers. Meadow makes challenging documentaries; Carrie makes successful feature films with a feminist slant. The two friends have everything in common - except their views on sex, power, movie-making and morality., And yet their loyalty trumps their different approaches to film and to life. Until, one day, a mysterious woman with a unique ability to cold-call and seduce powerful men over the phone - not through sex, but through listening - becomes the subject of one of Meadow's documentaries. Her downfall, and what makes her so extraordinarily moving, is that she pretends to be someone she is not., Heart-breaking and insightful, Innocents and Others is an astonishing novel about friendship, identity, loneliness and art.

Review:

A wondrous and mysterious novel, a spectacular and subtle meditation on sight and sound . . . brilliant, and erotic, and pop (Rachel Kushner, author of The Flamethrowers)

A literary marvel . . . As Don DeLillo did for rock and roll with Great Jones Street, so Spiotta does for film . . . Her aim is nothing less than redemption, and she delivers (Mary Karr, author of The Liars’ Club)

A fine novel . . . flawless and epic (Joshua Ferris, author of To Rise Again at a Decent Hour)

A daring and beautiful meditation about selfishness and selflessness, and how to be in the world. Spiotta is a wonder (George Saunders, author of Tenth of December)

The brilliant Dana Spiotta had me from page one --a lithely intelligent, moving inquiry into the mysterious compositions of art and friendships (Jess Walter, author of Beautiful Ruins)

A wonderfully gifted writer with an uncanny feel for the absurdities and sadnesses of contemporary life (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times)

A thrillingly complex and emotionally astute novel about fame, power, and alienation steeped in a dark eroticism and a particularly American kind of loneliness (Vanity Fair)

It's difficult not to descend into hyperbole talking about Spiotta's work . . . it's rare to find a novel that is so much fun and, at the same time, seeks emotional truth with such intellectual rigor (LA Times)

Spiotta tackles the slippery nature of identity and the destructive pull of desire in her fourth novel-this time through the lens of film...captivating...moving...always thought provoking. (Publishers Weekly)

The visionary liberty and daring with which Dana Spiotta has crafted her brilliant new novel, Innocents and Others (Scribner), is both inspirational and infectious. (Elle)

About this edition

• Publisher: Picador
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1509839143
• ISBN 13: 9781509839148
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 290