The Intimates: A Novel
Language: English
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- New
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- Title
- The Intimates: A Novel
- Author
- Sassone, Ralph
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Publication year
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0374176973
- ISBN 13
- 9780374176976
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Item weight
- 14 ounces
The Intimates is a brilliant and deeply moving first novel about the varieties of romance. Spanning years and continents, beginnings and endings, it is about two gifted and striving people who discover themselves in the reflection they see in each other, and how their affinity anchors them at critical points in their lives.
Maize and Robbie are drawn to each other from the first time they meet in high school. When it becomes obvious that their relationship wont be sexual, they establish a different kind of intimacy: becoming each others human diaries. Their passionate Friendship plays out against a backdrop of charged connections: with lovers and would be lovers, family members, teachers, and bosses. For the better part of a decade theyre inseparable fellow travelers, but ultimately they must confront the underside of the extreme and complicated closeness that has sustained them since they were teenagers.
Full of indelible characters, engrossing situations, and observations as sharply witty as they are lovely and profound,The Intimates renders the wonders and disappointments of becoming an adult, the thrills and mesmerizing illusions of sex, and the secrets we keep from others and ourselves as we struggle to locate our true character.The Intimates marks the emergence of a remarkable new voice.
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About the Author
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.
Ralph Sassone was born in Manhattan. A former editor of the Voice Literary Supplement he earned an M.F.A. from Brown and has taught there as well as at Haverford College and Vassar. He has previously written for several publications, including The New York Times Book Review, The Village Voice, and Details. Sassone splits his time between New York City and Annandale-on-Hudson. The Intimates is his first novel.
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