{"title":"Susan Minot","description":"SUSAN MINOT is an award-winning novelist, short-story writer, poet, and screenwriter. Her first novel, Monkeys, was published in a dozen countries and won the Prix Femina Étranger in France. Her novel Evening was a worldwide best seller and became a major motion picture. She lives in New York City and on an island off the coast of Maine.","products":[{"product_id":"dont-be-a-stranger-paperback","title":"Don't Be a Stranger - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA mesmerizing new novel from the author of \u003ci\u003eEvening\u003c\/i\u003e the story of a woman swept into a love affair at mid-life\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIvy Cooper is 52 years old when Ansel Fleming first walks into her life. Twenty years her junior, a musician newly released from prison on a minor drug charge, Ansel's beguiling good looks and quiet intensity instantly seduce her. Despite the gulf between their ages and experience the physical chemistry between them is overpowering, and over the heady weeks and months that follow Ivy finds her life bifurcated by his presence: On the surface she is a responsible mother, managing the demands of friends, an ex-husband, home; but emotionally, psychologically, sexually, she is consumed by desire and increasingly alive only in the stolen moments-out-of -time, with Ansel in her bed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn spellbinding prose, Susan Minot has crafted a luminous novel about erotic obsession, and the hunger for intimacy, communication, oblivion. \u003ci\u003eDon't Be a Stranger \u003c\/i\u003eis a gripping, sensual, and provocative work from one of the most remarkable voices in contemporary fiction.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102611017951,"sku":"9780593688489","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/IFflZ6IM1A9780593688489.webp?v=1781083589"},{"product_id":"rapture-paperback","title":"Rapture - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe setting is a New York apartment where two long-estranged lovers try to resuscitate their passion. Kay is old enough to be skeptical about men-\u003ci\u003ethis \u003c\/i\u003eman in particular-but still alert to the possibility of true love. Benjamin is a filmmaker with an appealing waywardness and a conveniently disappearing fianc e. As the two lie entwined in bed, Susan Minot ushers readers across an entire landscape of memory and sensation to reveal the infinite nuances of sex: its power to exalt and deceive, to connect two separate selves or make them fully aware of their solitude. Honest and unflinching, the result is a hypnotic reading experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe setting is a New York apartment where two long-estranged lovers try to resuscitate their passion. Kay is old enough to be skeptical about men-\"this man in particular-but still alert to the possibility of true love. Benjamin is a filmmaker with an appealing waywardness and a conveniently disappearing fiancee. As the two lie entwined in bed, Susan Minot ushers readers across an entire landscape of memory and sensation to reveal the infinite nuances of sex: its power to exalt and deceive, to connect two separate selves or make them fully aware of their solitude. Honest and unflinching, the result is a hypnotic reading experience.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104499470559,"sku":"9780375727887","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/vxuSkD-QAC9780375727887.webp?v=1781108447"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/susan-minot.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}