Susan Minot



 

Susan Minot

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avg rating: 3.38 | 2451 ratings | 9 distinct works
Evening Evening (Paperback)
by Susan Minot
avg rating 3.25 — 959 ratings — published 1998
14 editions
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Monkeys Monkeys (Paperback)
by Susan Minot
avg rating 3.77 — 239 ratings — published 1993
6 editions
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Lust and Other Stories Lust and Other Stories (Paperback)
by Susan Minot
avg rating 3.78 — 211 ratings — published 1989
4 editions
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Rapture Rapture (Paperback)
by Susan Minot
avg rating 3.05 — 105 ratings — published 2003
5 editions
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Folly Folly (Paperback)
by Susan Minot
avg rating 3.44 — 56 ratings — published 1992
5 editions
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Poems 4 A.M. Poems 4 A.M. (Paperback)
by Susan Minot
avg rating 3.48 — 21 ratings — published 2003
2 editions
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Stealing Beauty Stealing Beauty (Paperback)
by Susan Minot
avg rating 4.06 — 16 ratings — published 1996
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Huger Foote: My Friend from Me... Huger Foote: My Friend from Memphis (Hardcover)
by William Eggleston, Susan Minot
avg rating 4.00 — 1 ratings — published 2000
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Ein neues Leben Ein neues Leben (Paperback)
by Susan Minot
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2001
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"She was pulling a rope out of the water and knew it was coming to the end when the barnacles started to appear and they became more think and clustered. Then it was strangely peaceful and the sound was turned off. She stood at the bow of a ship. If only she could have stood this way above the water and really breathed and let the waves go by like pages being turned and watched everything more closely and chosen things more carefully then she might have been able to read the spirit within herself and would not have spent her life as if she were only halfway in it.

For a moment she felt an astonishing brilliance and heat and light and all of herself flared up and the vibration after sixty-five years was not weakened by time but more dense then suddenly it was as if the flame had caught the flimsiest piece of paper for it flickered up and flew into the air then quickly sank down withered into a thin cinder of ash which blew off, inconsequential. Her life had not been long enough for her to know the whole of herself, it had not been long enough or wide.

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Susan Minot (Evening)
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"The past was speaking . . . what was the difference now? She had the feeling she'd walked into a house she thought she knew well and discovered a room she hadn't seen before. Maybe it wasn't too late. Maybe they did have a chance. "
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"Starkly in an instant she saw herself as she really was-alone in a wood standing among blue shadows with no sounds and the air a sort of black ice. She had no coat. All the people she’d known had forgotten her. Her mother, biting off thread between her teeth, couldn’t hear her, and her father with his eyes turned sorrowfully inward did not see her. They never had. Those she loved did not need her. Lila and Carl danced together in a bubble. Ralph Eastman picked lint from his sleeve. Buddy tucked in his shirttails, jumped in a truck and drove away. Fiona Speed showed the back of her hat, heading downtown in a cab. They all had more important concerns, they were all in their own lives, and there was no room for her. At night their doors were shut and through lit windows she could see them consulting one another, checking the baby, looking after business, licking envelopes, turning back the bedcover, shutting off the light switch, while she was left stranded out in the chill night in the true human state, lost, in the dark, alone. "
Susan Minot (Evening)
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