With two novels and one short story collection published to overwhelming critical acclaim ("Monkeys takes your breath away," said Anne Tyler; "heartbreaking, exhilarating," raved the New York Times Book Review), Susan Minot has emerged as one of the most gifted writers in America, praised for her ability to strike at powerful emotional truths in language that is sensual and commanding, mesmerizing in its vitality and intelligence. Now, with Evening, she gives us her most ambitious novel, a work of surpassing beauty. During a summer weekend on the coast of Maine, at the wedding of her best friend, Ann Grant fell in love. She was twenty-five. Forty years later--after three marriages and five children--Ann Lord finds herself in the dim claustrophobia of illness, careening between lucidity and delirium and only vaguely conscious of the friends and family parading by her bedside, when the memory of that weekend returns to her with the clarity and intensity of a fever-dream. Evening unfolds in the rushlight of that memory, as Ann relives those three vivid days on the New England coast, with motorboats buzzing and bands playing in the night, and the devastating tragedy that followed a spectacular wedding. Here, in the surge of hope and possibility that coursed through her at twenty-five--in a singular time of complete surrender--Ann discovers the highest point of her life. Superbly written and miraculously uplifting, Evening is a stirring exploration of time and memory, of love's transcendence and of its failure to transcend--a rich testament to the depths of grief and passion, and a stunning achievement.
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As Ann Lord lies on her deathbed, her daughter delivers a balsam pillow from the attic. At first the ailing woman is confused, but suddenly the scent reminds her of the "wild tumult" she experienced 40 years earlier:
Something stole into her as she walked in the dark, a dream she'd had long ago. The air was so black she was unable to see her arms, it was a warm summer night. Above her she could make out the dark line of the tops of spruce trees and a sky lit with stars. She felt the warm tar through the soles of her shoes. The boy beside her took her hand.In the porous world between conscious and unconscious the protagonist of Evening revisits the great passions of her life, along with its considerable disappointments. The boy in the dark remains the fixed point--not so much because he is the most important man in her life, but because of the untapped possibilities he represents. Meanwhile, friends and relations come to sit by Ann Lord's side as she veers between clarity and feverish recollection.
In her third novel, Susan Minot takes some new risks--her narrative spanning seven decades of memory and her style ranging from Stegneresque particularity to the exquisite abstraction Virginia Woolf perfected in To the Lighthouse. Equal parts memory and desire, fiction and poetry, Evening is a seductive story made more so by the measured pace of details emerging, one by one, like stars. --Cristina Del Sesto
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"Her best work yet, assured, supple, exhilarating in its nerve and cool momentum" --Joan Didion
"A stunning novel...a powerful story that cuts back and forth in time to give us both the defining moment in a woman's life and an understanding of how that moment has reverberated through the remainder of her days...Her evocation of her heroine's passion for Harris Arden is so convincing, her depiction of the world she inhabits is so fiercely observed...The difference between [Monkeys and Evening] attests to Susan Minot's growing ambition and
assurance as an artist" --Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
"An absorbing drama...Minot writes with quiet perceptiveness and grace, pulling the
reader into Ann's deathbed reverie" --Elle
"A brilliant lyric performance" --John Casey
"In spare and lovely language, Susan Minot has set forth a real life, in all its particularity and splendor and pain. This is the task of the novelist, and in Evening Minot has succeeded
admirably" --Roxana Robinson, New York Times Book Review
"It astounds in its craftsmanship and imprints itself indelibly on the heart...A haunting work of art that moves at the pace of a suspense thriller" --Sheila Bosworth, New Orleans Times-Picayune
"Evening is a beautifully realized work...more mature and confident than anything she has written...An exquisite novel" --Gail Caldwell, Boston Globe
"A wonderful, truthful, heartbreaking book. . .. Evening vindicates the wildest assertions any of us have made about Susan Minot's talent" --Tom McGuane
"Evening is a supremely sensual, sensitive and dramatic novel...So rich in color and motion, music and atmosphere" --Donna Seaman, Booklist
"I was swept up in it...It moved me and made me cry" --D. T. Max, New York Observer
"A stunning novel...a powerful story that cuts back and forth in time to give us both the defining moment in a woman's life and an understanding of how that moment has reverberated through the remainder of her days...Her evocation of her heroine's passion for Harris Arden is so convincing, her depiction of the world she inhabits is so fiercely observed...The difference between [Monkeys and Evening] attests to Susan Minot's growing ambition and
assurance as an artist" --Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
"An absorbing drama...Minot writes with quiet perceptiveness and grace, pulling the
reader into Ann's deathbed reverie" --Elle
"A brilliant lyric performance" --John Casey
"In spare and lovely language, Susan Minot has set forth a real life, in all its particularity and splendor and pain. This is the task of the novelist, and in Evening Minot has succeeded
admirably" --Roxana Robinson, New York Times Book Review
"It astounds in its craftsmanship and imprints itself indelibly on the heart...A haunting work of art that moves at the pace of a suspense thriller" --Sheila Bosworth, New Orleans Times-Picayune
"Evening is a beautifully realized work...more mature and confident than anything she has written...An exquisite novel" --Gail Caldwell, Boston Globe
"A wonderful, truthful, heartbreaking book. . .. Evening vindicates the wildest assertions any of us have made about Susan Minot's talent" --Tom McGuane
"Evening is a supremely sensual, sensitive and dramatic novel...So rich in color and motion, music and atmosphere" --Donna Seaman, Booklist
"I was swept up in it...It moved me and made me cry" --D. T. Max, New York Observer
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I read through the review's of other readers and just felt the need to comment. Some didn't "get" Susan Minot's style. It's not just a little bit like James Joyce,(no slouch)and it seemed very correct when trying to capture the thoughts and feelings of a woman in her final dance with life and death -- not to mention morphine. I had no trouble with it, although it required a bit of "letting go"....which I enjoyed.
I do think that anyone who has closely witnessed a loved one endure the lonely passing of life to cancer, might be strongly affected, as I was, by this book. I saw that another reader was annoyed by the seemingly "perfect" life had by Ann. Perfect? Somehow that escaped me. Besides, the point was that it comes down to this...it ends for all of us. We are alone, truly, as we die. While others hover around us, what is left is only a reflection of the life we lived and the choices we made. No one really *knew* Ann,except Ann,although many people had loved her. She had regrets that haunted her,and lots of "what if's" to deal with as she "conversed" with Harris, the one it all boiled back down to. It tugged at my heart deeply, and I look forward to anything else Susan Minot might write.
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I had such a hard time reading Evening. The premise fascinated me, but I just found it dull. I didn't so much mind the shifts in tense, but at times the story got so jumbled that I had a hard time keeping the characters and the time periods straight. I had heard such great things about this book, but in the end, I was simply disappointed.
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Minot lumbers her way through present and past, teasing out the wedding weekend exasperatingly. I was skimming the sick room scenes, then even the scenes of the past. I kept thinking "Bridges of Madison County," except here it was three days instead of four. Plus, if you want to be lauded for aesthetic sensibilities, surely you, or your editor, ought to get some rudimentary grammar right--the right verb forms for lay and lie, using ground, rather than grinded for the past tense of ground, and a million alright misuses. It's ALL RIGHT. These pesky irritants were like mosquitoes swarming over an already unsavory bog.
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A deadly evening
I am sorry to rain on the parade of all who gave this book appreciative and rave reviews, but I am with the reviewers who panned it. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 20. Oktober 2007 von hexe
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I loved this book
Having just finished this novel, I couldn't wait to log on and praise it. This is a marvelous book: compelling story and breathtaking technique, in my opinion a rare combination... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 18. September 2000 veröffentlicht
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A Stunning Book
Please don't be put of by some of the negative reviews that appear here. This is the most beautiful, engaging book I have picked up in ages. The style is exquisite, lyrical. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 6. Juni 2000 veröffentlicht
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hypnotic ....
Susan Minot is one of the most gifted writers. I must read it again! Minot's senses are keen. She gives us back what we may have forgotten! Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 21. Mai 2000 veröffentlicht
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Disappointing story despite engaging dying state
One questions the depth of Ann's sentiments knowing her age and her rather privileged life. Why would a woman who's had three marriages, five children, and a wealth of personally... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 6. Mai 2000 von "mnkm123@aol.com"
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left waiting
I loved Minot's style and felt that she conveyed the conflict between conscious/subconscious or mind/heart very well. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 21. Februar 2000 von Stefanie
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too much left unexplained?
I liked the book but some plots threads seemed awfully thin and left hanging. For instance who was the drunk guy who showed up to pay his respects early in the book who leaves (a... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 7. Februar 2000 von Beverly White
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An author is born
I mostly remembered Minot's previous short stories, and also the delicate screenplay she wrote for Bertolucci's underrated STEALING BEAUTY. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 30. Dezember 1999 veröffentlicht
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worth reading
I liked this book. It was a quick read, which is refreshing, because most of the books I pick up are huge and, at times, overwhelming. This book was a snapshot of a life. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 23. Dezember 1999 veröffentlicht
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I actually found it interesting....
i do have to say that i actually enjoyed this book. it was perfectly written and was beautiful. her life was not all that perfect and to tell you the truth i know several friends... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 21. Dezember 1999 veröffentlicht
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