Sleeping Beauties
By (Author) Susanna Moore
Random House USA Inc
Vintage Books
1st December 2011
United States
General
Fiction
FIC
Paperback
240
Width 134mm, Height 201mm, Spine 16mm
240g
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.
Susanna Mooreis the author of the novels The Life of Objects,The Big Girls, One Last Look, In the Cut, Sleeping Beauties, The Whiteness of Bones,andMy Old Sweetheart,and two books of nonfiction,Light Years- A Girlhood in Hawai'iandI Myself Have Seen It- The Myth of Hawai'i. She lives in New York City.