Carole Maso is the author of ten books- Ghost Dance, The Art Lover, AVA, The American Woman in the Chinese Hat, Defiance, Aureole, Break Every Rule, The Room Lit by Roses, Beauty Is Convulsive, and Mother & Child. She has received numerous awards, including the Berlin Prize and the Lannan Literary Fellowship for Fiction. Maso is currently a professor of Literary Arts at Brown University.
Praise for Ghost Dance
“Obsessive memories, both real and surreal, recur as a young girl
tries to overcome the grief of losing her mother. A wonderfully
delicate first novel.” —Vogue
“An exquisitely written and ambitious first novel.” —New York Times
Book Review
“Although author Carole Maso follows the contours of fiction, style
is everything in Ghost Dance, a strangely lovely and perplexing
book, a dazzling pyrotechnical display of word arrangements and
sentence sculpting . . . Maso has a fine ear and her literary gift
is impressive.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“Intensely demanding and rewarding . . . I can't remember a more
striking depiction of madness, or the labyrinth of family ties.”
—Cyra McFadden, Los Angeles Times
“Its great scenes are orchestral.” —E.M. Broner, The Women's Review
of Books
“In this irresistible first novel we hear a new voice, artistic,
distinct and very female. “ —Rocky Mountain News
“There were many, many moments in this story when I felt like
Vanessa herself, standing open–mouthed as small acts of great
beauty unrolled before me.” —Gay Community News
“It is a beautiful and painful book because it says in incomparable
language, the truth: that there can be no accommodation, that life
is difficult and love even more so, that it will not be fine but
still we live. The implicit hope throughout is that we will
understand our lives, we will be the best we can be. We will be
brave. We will say what we mean to say.” —Helen Barolini, Belles
Lettres
“Carole Maso is that rare creature—an original! Her voice and
vision are like no one else's. From the first page to the last of
this meticulously written novel she strikes her own note: elegiac,
epic. Never does she tell her story in a straightforward narrative
way, but nevertheless her story gets told, mysteriously,
indelibly.” —Edmund White, author of Our Young Man
“Ghost Dance is at once history, myth, family chronicle, and an
extremely original evocation of that elusive meeting ground of
creativity and hallucination. Its prose is like poetry, it is an
inspiring first novel.” —John Hawkes, author of An Irish Eye
“Comparable more to musical than to literary forms, this first
novel resembles a tone poem: its whispering minor–key passages rush
suddenly into sexual ecstasy and return to, vary and enlarge upon
the agonizing theme of death . . . these vignettes of anger and
fear and searching are in the end the author's lyric expression of
love.” —Publishers Weekly
“Immaculately written . . . A stunning debut.” —Booklist
“This haunting, often surreal first novel vividly captures the
struggles of a young woman, Vanessa Turin, as she attempts to
recover her family and her past . . . Unconventional and intense,
this novel tells a harrowing tale of the human search for love and
understanding.” —Library Journal
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