By Carole Maso
Paperback: 9781628977141
eBook: 9781628977158
Publication Date: July 10th, 2027
Description
Set on the beautiful, indifferent Côte d'Azur, The American Woman in the Chinese Hat is witness to an American writer rediscovering her sense of self through a string of sexual encounters.
Stunning and erotic, The American Woman in a Chinese Hat chronicles the irresistible adventures of Catherine, an American writer whose lover of ten years leaves her just before she embarks on a new life in France. Set into motion by a single act of abandonment, Catherine falls deeper and deeper into an irretrievable abandonment. Forcing the boundaries of identity, she enters a series of blinding sexual encounters with a poet, a fascist, a young Arlesian woman, a fireman, and three thieves. 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.
Biographical Note
Carole Maso is the author of ten books. Her novels are Ghost Dance, The Art Lover, AVA, The American Woman in the Chinese Hat, Defiance and Mother & Child. Forthcoming are the novels Eternity and the Dreamer, and What Does She See When She Closes Her Eyes?, and she continues to work on her twenty-year opus, The Bay of Angels. She is also the author of two sequences of poems in prose: Aureole, and Beauty is Convulsive, as well as of a book of essays, Break Every Rule, and a memoir, The Room Lit by Roses. She is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including, most recently, the 2018 Berlin Prize.