Tourmaline
A Novel- By Joanna Scott
Full Description
A vividly imagined new novel from award-winning Scott. In the mid-1950s, an American family travels to an island off the coast of Italy to make a fortune in gemstones. ... more
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Critical Praise
"One of the most gifted writers at work today, Joanna Scott is brilliant, huge-hearted, devastating. In Tourmaline, she's at the top of her form."
-Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours
"Tourmaline unspools like a movie, a lush journey as seductive as a Bertolucci film, but one tinged with Hitchcock, its bright sunlit tale pierced with an ever-present, faintly ominous undertow."
-Helen Eisenbach, Newsday
"Tourmaline is a story of seductions: erotic, geographic, intellectual, moral. No one can escape, because no one is immune to desire, especially not the desire to possess our own history."
-Kathryn Harrison, Bookforum
"Joanna Scott is one of today's best novelists, and she keeps getting better."
-Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times
- Category:
- FICTION
- Format:
- TRADE PAPERBACK
- Publish Date:
- 9/3/2003
- Price:
- $13.95/$19.95
- ISBN:
- 9780316608480
- Pages:
- 288
- Size:
- 5-1/2" x 8-1/4"
