7 rows · · "Claire Messud nails it with The Burning Girl, a hypnotic coming-of-age novel about two Brand: Norton, W. W. Company, Inc. · THE BURNING GIRL. by Claire Messud ‧ RELEASE DATE: Aug. 29, Messud (The Woman Upstairs, , etc.) investigates the fraught intricacies of friendship and adolescence as two girls grow up and grow apart in a small Massachusetts town. The Burning Girl is a work of literary fiction by Claire Messud, detailing the adventure of protagonists Cassie and Julia as they experience the pains of growing up and growing apart. The first part of the novel chronicles their early friendship and the eventual dissolution of that friendship; later the focus moves to Cassie, who suffers from family traumas and goes to find her father, a man she presumed to be dead .
I really liked Claire Messud's book "The Woman Upstairs" so I was excited about "The Burning Girl". After reading the free sample download offered by Amazon I was inspired to read more so I bought the Kindle book at $, which price went down to $ a few days later (made me mad). Brilliantly mixing fable and coming-of-age tale, The Burning Girl gets to the heart of these matters in an absolutely irresistible way. © Claire Messud (P) Recorded Books Coming of Age Literary Fiction. Claire Messud's fifth novel is called "The Burning Girl.". Before accusing her of pandering to the analytics of the best-seller list, note that this book's epigraph is from Elizabeth.
"Claire Messud nails it with The Burning Girl, a hypnotic coming-of-age novel about two. An Amazon Best Book of September Claire Messud’s seventh novel, The Burning Girl, may be to adolescent girlhood what The Catcher in the Rye was to generations of boys. It’s one of those novels that seems to encompass all that is important about that intense period of life and love, despite being narrow in scope. Messud is an absolute master storyteller and bafflingly good writer It is that combination of imagination and skill that makes The Burning Girl exceptional, more so than the story itself, which sometimes veers into the ordinary and unexamined.
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