Cruel Beautiful World: A Novel
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Cruel Beautiful World: A Novel

by Caroline LeavittPublish: Sep 19, 2016Literary Fiction

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Caroline Leavitt is at her mesmerizing best in this haunting, nuanced portrait of love, sisters, and the impossible legacy of family.

It’s 1969, and sixteen-year-old Lucy is about to run away with a much older man to live off the grid in rural Pennsylvania, a rash act that will have vicious repercussions for both her a... nd her older sister, Charlotte. As Lucy’s default caretaker for most of their lives, Charlotte’s youth has been marked by the burden of responsibility, but never more so than when Lucy’s dream of a rural paradise turns into a nightmare.

Cruel Beautiful World examines the intricate, infinitesimal distance between seduction and love, loyalty and duty, and explores what happens when you’re responsible for things you cannot make right.
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Caroline Leavitt
United State4 Books
Literary Fiction

BIOGRAPHY
Hi everyone, I'm the NYT Bestselling author of Pi tures of You, Is This Tomorrow and Cruel Beautiful World and 8 other novels. My new novel With or Without You, is coming from Algonquin on August 4th and already has (Yay!) rave blurbs from Joan Silber, Madeline Miller, Ron Rash, Lidia Yuknavitch, and 8 more. I am a ... New York Foundation of the Arts Fellow, I was longlisted for the Maine Readers Prize, and I was a finalist at the Sundance Screenwriters lab for both pilot and feature film. I'm a book critic for People, The Boston Globe and the San Francisco Chronicle and I teach novel writing online at Stanford and UCLA, and I do developmental editing for private clients. I live in NYC's unofficial 6th borough, Hoboken with my husband, the writer Jeff Tamarkin, and we a superb actor son, Max! read more

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Book Detail
Title Cruel Beautiful World: A Novel
Author Caroline Leavitt
ASIN B01B3VMC3W
Publish Date 19, Sep 2016
Language English
Page Count 369
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