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The Intimates: A Novel (2011)

by Ralph Sassone(Favorite Author)

3.21 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0374176973 (ISBN13: 9780374176976)

languge

English

genre

Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction

publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

review 1: This beautiful novel is the kind of book that will appeal to fans of Alice Munro, Michael Cunningham, Marilynne Robinson and Charles Baxter: classically structured, elegantly composed, and illuminating fiction that burrows deep into the lives of its characters and guides readers toward a fresh and heightened understanding of ordinary human emotions. Although the protagonists, Maize and Robbie, couldn't be from a more different background than mine, I sometimes felt, while reading about their odd (sometimes oddly funny) experiences, like I was reading a private journal about my own intimate relationships. Sassone locates the universal in their particular stories and his book has a quiet yet undeniable power.
review 2: I saw a review of this book that said it ha... mored stunning emotional insight. That reviewer couldn't have been more right. If you want to read a novel that really gets to the core of what it's like to be young and bright and sensitive and have a ridiculous crush on someone, or to make love for the first time, or to struggle with parents you both love and resent, or to just try to figure out who are you and what you really want in life (while you're embarrassed not to know it), check out this book. This writer has a gift for evoking complicated, often ambivalent feelings through original and beautiful metaphors and the two main characters, Maize and Robbie, are extremely interesting and likeable best friends. (Maize especially.)It's also full of dry and sly humor. less

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