Innocents and Others
17 November 2016Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
Meadow Mori and Carrie Wexler grew up together in Los Angeles, and both became filmmakers.
Meadow makes challenging documentaries; Carrie makes successful feature films with a feminist slant. The two friends have everything in common--except their views on sex, power, movie-making, and morality. And yet their loyalty trumps their different approaches to film and to life.
Until, one day,...
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17 November 2016288 pages
9781509839698Imprint: Picador
Reviews
A wonderfully gifted writer with an uncanny feel for the absurdities and sadnesses of contemporary lifeMichiko Kakutani, New York Times
A thrillingly complex and emotionally astute novel about fame, power, and alienation steeped in a dark eroticism and a particularly American kind of lonelinessVanity Fair
A literary marvel . . . As Don DeLillo did for rock and roll with Great Jones St., so Spiotta does for film. . .Her aim is nothing less than redemption, and she deliversMary Karr, author of The Liars’ Club
Dana Spiotta is one of my favorite living writers and in this wondrous and mysterious novel, a spectacular and subtle meditation on sight and sound, she seems almost to channel Jean-Luc Godard. . . brilliant, and erotic, and popRachel Kushner, author of The Flamethrowers
