Claire Messud’s new novel, her third, is, sentence by sentence and paragraph by paragraph, a singing, Jamesian beauty. She does it all and does it like a virtuoso: she conjures the heavy particularity of places (Manhattan, Miami, small-town upstate New York, expensive apartments, sleazy dives, gay bars, offices, stairwells, coffee shops, sweaty sheets, freshly ironed sh (...)
November 03, 2006
Books
Unclothed but Not Redressed
The Emperor’s ChildrenClaire MessudAlfred A. Knopf, $25, 431 pp.
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