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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100375413278
ISBN-139780375413278
eBay Product ID (ePID)1942365
Product Key Features
Book TitleRapture
Number of Pages128 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicPsychological, Erotica / General, General
Publication Year2002
GenreFiction
AuthorSusan Minot
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight9 Oz
Item Length7.8 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2001-038377
Reviews"Minot reaches a new level in her career. . . . Brimming with stylistic and emotional intelligence." San Francisco Chronicle "A disconcerting examination of love and war between the sexes." The New Yorker "Minot's story . . . is timeless, and she makes you feel its pure, raw ache. . . . Rapture is erotic, but more: it's romantic in the true sense of the word." Miami Herald "Explores a tragic irony of love and sex: how one partner can reach the heights of devotion at the very instant the other is dumped into the pits of despair." Time Out New York "Mesmerizing . . . provocative." Harper's Bazaar "In Minot's writing, one is often reminded of Henry James. Like James, she pursues the filaments of emotion that almost escape language. . . . Minot's writing [is] beautiful, evocative, and self-assured." O, The Oprah Magazine "A splendid piece of narrative sleight-of-hand . . . that further confirms Minot's place among our finest novelists." Minneapolis Star Tribune "I would challenge any reader to read this and not find moments of gut-wrenching truth, as if Minot had looked straight into each of our hearts." The Providence Journal "In language simultaneously rich and spare. . . . [Rapture] has a muscular swagger uncommon in fiction by women." Vogue "[Rapture offers] equally convincing portraits of the ways men and women think about love and sex." Interview "Minot takes an insightful, intelligent, humorous look at the tangled mess of modern love." The Toronto Star "[Minot] draws the reader in with subtle strokes of mood and atmosphere and with her ability to express so much in so few words." The Oakland Press "You get the sense that Minot has lived every moment, spoken every syllable, felt every emotion. The weird thing is: so have you." The Baltimore City Paper
Dewey Edition21
Dewey DecimalFIC
SynopsisFour years after her critically acclaimed novelEvening, Susan Minot gives us a new work of startling intimacy and precision. Using a single interludea brief encounter of old lovers; two bodies entwined on a bed at middayMinot defines the distance that erupts at what seems to be the height of connection, as well as the extent to which the senses deceive, and the intensely private eroticism of fantasy and the imagination. Minot's lovers are mesmerizing in their individual journeysone moving toward a kind of holy consummation, the other toward abnegation and blank despair. This is the wayward history of their efforts to make contact with each other while deluding themselves about the nature of the contact they're making. Graphic, erotic, provocative,Raptureis a meditation on romantic love, sex, and their reflections in the life of the mind.
LC Classification NumberPS3563.I4755R37 2002
