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  • The Burning Girl: A Novel

    Claire Messud

    Hardback, 2017

    A New York Times Bestseller
    A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist

    A bracing, hypnotic coming-of-age story about the bond of best friends, from the New York Times best-selling author of The...
  • The Burning Girl: A Novel

    Claire Messud

    Paperback, 2018

    A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist

    "[A] masterwork of psychological fiction.… Messud teases readers with a psychological mystery, withholding information and then cannily parceling it out." —...
  • Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write: An Autobiography in Essays

    Claire Messud

    Hardback, 2020

    A glimpse into a beloved novelist’s inner world, shaped by family, art, and literature.
  • The Burning Girl: A Novel

    Claire Messud

    E Book, 2017

    A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist

    "[A] masterwork of psychological fiction.… Messud teases readers with a psychological mystery, withholding information and then cannily parceling it out." —...
  • Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write: An Autobiography in Essays

    Claire Messud

    E Book, 2020

    A glimpse into a beloved novelist’s inner world, shaped by family, art, and literature.
  • The Last Life

    Claire Messud

    Paperback, 2022

    A “mesmerizing” novel from the acclaimed author of The Emperor’s Children that is “as artful as it is affecting” (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times).
  • The Last Life

    Claire Messud

    E Book, 2022

    A “mesmerizing” novel from the acclaimed author of The Emperor’s Children that is “as artful as it is affecting” (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times).
  • This Strange Eventful History: A Novel

    Claire Messud

    Hardback, 2024

  • This Strange Eventful History: A Novel

    Claire Messud

    E Book

  • Quartet: A Novel

    Jean Rhys, Claire Messud

    Paperback, 2020

    “[Quartet’s] abiding power arises from [Jean Rhys’s] ability to convey the complex vectors of desire and repulsion that move between the characters, distorted by the intractable demands of...