Rapture -- Susan Minot, Paperback

In this stunning novel, the renowned author of Evening "explores a tragic irony of love and sex: how one partner can reach the heights of devotion at the very instant the other is dumped into the pits of despair" (Time Out New York).

"Minot's story . . . is timeless, and she makes you feel pure, raw ache. . . . [Rapture is] romantic in the true sense of the word."--The Miami Herald

In a New York apartment, two long-estranged lovers try to resuscitate their passion. Kay is old enough to be skeptical about men--this man in particular--but still alert to the possibility of true love. Benjamin is a filmmaker with an appealing waywardness and a conveniently disappearing fianc?e.

As the two lie entwined in bed, Susan Minot ushers readers across an entire landscape of memory and sensation to reveal the infinite nuances of sex: its power to exalt and deceive, to connect two separate selves, or make them fully aware of their solitude. Honest and unflinching, the result is a hypnotic reading experience.

Author: Susan Minot
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 04/08/2003
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.26w x 0.36d
ISBN: 9780375727887

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 05/11/2003 pg. 24

About the Author
Susan Minot's first novel, Monkeys, was published in a dozen countries and received the Prix Femina Étranger in France. She is the author of Lust & Other Stories, Folly, Evening, and Poems 4 A.M., and wrote the screenplay for Bernardo Bertolucci's Stealing Beauty. She lives on an island in Maine.