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The American Woman in the Chinese Hatby Carole MasoISBN 1564780457 (1-56478-045-7)
Hardcover, Dalkey Archive Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The American Woman in the Chinese Hat'Book summary:Carole Maso's stunning, erotic fourth novel chronicles the dark, irresistible adventures of an American writer named Catherine who has come to France to live. Set into motion by a single act of abandonmentCatherine's lover of ten years has left hershe falls deeper and deeper into an irretrievable madness.
With passionate abandon and detachment Catherine pursues her own destruction. Forcing the boundaries of identity and the limits of her eroticism, she enters a series of blinding sexual encounters with a poet, a fascist, a young Arlesian woman, a fireman, and three thieves. Eerily she splits herself in two so that she is both the one who watches and the one who is watched, creator and creation, author and character, as she observes herself from afar. "And I would like to help her," the one who watches says, "but I can't."
This mesmerizing drama of sex, betrayal, and dissolution is played out against the dazzling backdrop of the beautiful, indifferent Cote d'Azur in summer. Written in a dwindling lexicon with a simple, warped musicality, The American Woman in the Chinese Hat is a dark, uncompromising, seductive work of art. [via]
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The Art Loverby Carole MasoISBN 0811216292 (0-8112-1629-2)
Softcover, New Directions
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art Lover'Book summary:While her father and best friend are dying, a young American woman tries to find the limits of love and the power of art in the face of the inevitable.
What is the power of art in the face of death? In The Art Lover Carole Maso has created an elegant and moving narrative about a woman experiencing (and reliving) the most painful transitions of her life. Caroline, the novel's protagonist, returns to New York after the death of her fatherostensibly to wrap things up and take care of necessary "business"where her memory and imagination conspire to lay before her all her griefs and joys in a rebellious progression. In different voices, employing a collage-like fragmentation, Maso gently unfolds The Art Lover in much the same way the fragile and prehistoric fiddlehead fern unfolds throughout the novel, bringing with subtle grace the ever-entangled feelings of grief and love into full and tender view. Various illustrations throughout. [via] 
Aureoleby Carole MasoISBN 0872864103 (0-87286-410-3)
Softcover, City Lights Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aureole'Book summary:Carole Maso's Aureole is a brilliant, fragmented, overtly sexual novel of an American woman coming to terms with her sexuality, her lesbianism and her erotic relationship to the world. Maso's early work like Ghost Dance were precise, sophisticated linear narratives that explained how the world worked. She has been moving towards a highly personal and impressionistic style in AVA and The American Woman in the Chinese Hat that explains, through innovative use of language and cadence, how the world feels. Aureole is a textured, linguistic and measured journey in which Maso makes us experience the sound and taste of the word itself with an eroticism of language that is as sensual and tactile as touch itself. [via]
Avaby Carole MasoISBN 1564780740 (1-56478-074-0)
Softcover, Dalkey Archive Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ava'Book summary:This haunting novel questions the border between poetry and prose. Ava Klein, lover of life and professor of comparative literature, is dying. On this her last day, she recalls her experiences in unique and lyrical detail; a meditation on war, an ode to joy, a celebration of life. Helene Cixous praises AVA as incorporating "a language that heals as much as it separates." Publishers Weekly called it "heartbreakingly familiar emotions in an utterly original form." [via]
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Beauty Is Convulsive: The Passion of Frida Kahloby Carole MasoISBN 1582430896 (1-58243-089-6)
Hardcover, Counterpoint
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beauty Is Convulsive: The Passion of Frida Kahlo'Book summary:A vibrant series of prose poems celebrating the life of artist Frida Kahlo.
Beauty Is Convulsive is a biographical meditation on one of the twentieth century's most compelling and famous artists, Frida Kahlo (1907-1954). At the age of nineteen, Kahlo's life was transformed when the bus in which she was riding was hit by a trolley car. Pierced by a steel handrail and broken in many places, she entered a long period of convalescence during which she began to paint self-portraits. In 1928, at twenty-one, she joined the Communist Party and came to know Diego Rivera. The forty-one-year-old Rivera, Mexico's most famous painter, was impressed by the force of Kahlo's personality and by the authenticity of her art, and the two soon married. Though they were devoted to each other, intermittent affairs on both sides, Frida's grief over her inability to bear a child, and her frequent illnesses made the marriage tumultuous. This prose poem is typical Maso --vigorous, daring, always original. She brings together parts of Kahlo's biography, her letters, medical documents, and her diaries with language that is often as erotic and colorful as Kahlo's paintings. [via]
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Break Every Rule: Essays on Language, Longing, & Moments of Desireby Carole MasoISBN 1582430632 (1-58243-063-2)
Hardcover, Counterpoint
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Conjunctions, 48: Faces of Desireby Robert Butler, Mary Caponegro, Brian Evenson, Carole Maso , Mei-Mei BerssenbruggeISBN 0941964647 (0-941964-64-7)
Softcover, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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Defianceby Carole MasoISBN 1564783677 (1-56478-367-7)
Softcover, Dalkey Archive Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Defiance'Book summary:Harvard physics professor Bernadette O'Brien lies in a Georgia prison cell, awaiting execution for the murder of two students, killings that were performed as the culmination of intricate sexual ensnarements. As she prepares to die, Bernadette writes her life story in a notebook. That is the plot of Defiance... but this is not a novel that can be reduced to its plot; Carole Maso, in fact, repeatedly undermines efforts to glide through a straightforward narrative, plunging readers into the mind of her narrator. The novel's power comes not from its events, although those are certainly jarring enough, but from the ways in which those events are filtered through Bernadette's perspective--the juxtapositions of childhood traumas, mathematical puzzles, and cynical death row reflections (more than a few of which are inspired by the well-meaning social worker assigned to her case: "Not another stereotype at this late date. Please no."). Playing with various forms--symbolic logic, self-help literature, and sexual fantasy, among others--Maso takes a lurid tale and transforms it into a stunning glimpse into the mind of a woman who became a killer without, for all her sarcastic and unrepentant bravado, ever quite ceasing to be a victim. --Ron Hogan [via]
Ghost Danceby Carole MasoISBN 0060970987 (0-06-097098-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Room Lit by Roses: A Journal of Pregnancy and Birthby Carole MasoISBN 1582432120 (1-58243-212-0)
Softcover, Counterpoint
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