Books written by Carole Maso
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Ghost Dance
Ghost Dance
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The Art Lover
In the aftermath of her father's death, Caroline, a young American woman, returns to New York to attend to final arrangements, oversees the death of a best friend, and tests the limits of love and the power of art in the face of life's ...
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Beauty is Convulsive: The Passion of Frida Kahlo
Maso's spare yet lyric tribute, a genuine communion, is a welcome antidote to the mawkishness and sensationalism that is starting to blur our appreciation for Kahlo's pioneering art and incandescent spirit," Booklist
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The American Woman in the Chinese Hat
. . Maso tracks with horrifying authenticity the downward spiral of Catherine’s depression.”—Los Angeles Times “A fever dream of love and sanctuary.”—Elle
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Mother and Child: A Novel
A literary mediation on life and death, being and non–being, and the intense mystery and beauty of existence between a mother and child. “Heartbreakingly perfect” (San Francisco Chronicle), Maso’s moving, dreamlike novel follows a ...
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The Room Lit by Roses: A Journal of Pregnancy and Birth
From Carole Maso, one of our most daring experimentalist writers, comes this intimate and seductive book: a working journal of her pregnancy. We have come to rely on Maso to...
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Break Every Rule: Essays on Language, Longing, and Moments of Desire
In this groundbreaking work of ecstatic criticism, Carole Maso shows why she has risen, over the past fifteen years, as one of the brightest stars in the literary firmament. Ever...
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Ghost Dance: A Novel
... on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon the inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils. ... All is burnt orange, and yellow, and scarlet.
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Defiance: A Novel
' Carole Maso has galvanized audiences across the country and won critical esteem and literary awards.' Compare Defiance to current hits like A.M. Homes? The End of Alice, Cronenberg's movie Crash, and Susanna Moore's In the Cut.
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Ava
We hear the voices of her parents, who survived the Treblinka death camp, and of her Aunt Sophie, who did not. War permeates the text, for on Ava Klein's last day Iraq has invaded Kuwait. And above all we hear Ava's voice.
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Beauty is Convulsive: The Passion of Frida Kahlo
Carole Maso brings together pieces from Kahlo’s biography, her letters, medical documents, and her diaries to assemble a text that is as erotic, mysterious, and colorful as one of Kahlo’s paintings.