Sleeping Beauties
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Book Overview
Like her much-acclaimed previous novels, Susanna Moore's Sleeping Beauties is set in Hawaii, whose shimmering beauty and melancholy traditions are both seductive and dangerously hard to leave. Or so they prove for Clio, who marries a well-known Hollywood actor--providing her with the promise of escape from the entanglements of island life. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0394582802
ISBN13:9780394582801
Release Date:August 1993
Publisher:Alfred A. Knopf
Length:231 Pages
Weight:1.00 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 5.8" x 8.6"
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The third book in Moore's Hawaiian trilogy maintains her hig
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
Using the same characters that appear in the first two books of her Hawaiian trilogy (My Old Sweetheart and The Whiteness of Bones), Moore continues to explore the dilemma of tradition and culture --- and what one is to do with these precious things. Her love of nature is manifest, as in her earlier books, but her attempt to discover what it means to be a woman is moving and heart-breaking. Whereas The Whiteness of Bones seems to be a milder, dress-rehearsal for her later novel, In the Cut, this book is concerned with the importance of cultural history --- it can't be an accident that the heroine's name is Clio, who is also the muse of history. It's also very sexy --- Clio marries a movie star and tries to escape her heritage by running off to Hollywood. I don't understand why this book is never mentioned when Moore's work is under its (sometimes controversial) discussion...
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