Sarah Moss, Counterpoint (PGW, dist.), $14.95 paper (288p) ISBN 9781582435794
Moss's eerie, sophisticated debut novel drops readers into the middle of Greenland's Arctic summer during an archeological dig to unearth traces of lost Viking settlements. A team of three men and three women from the United States and Europe – each
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Sarah Moss, Author BlueBridge $24.95 (244p) ISBN 978-1-933346-03-8
Moss's book is primarily a literary historical examination of the myth and reality of Antarctica and the Arctic from the point of view of European settlers and explorers, including the history of Norse settlements in Greenland; the expeditions of...
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Sarah Moss. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $22 (144p) ISBN 978-0-374-16192-7
Moss (Cold Earth) delivers a powerful and unsettling novel about an Iron Age reenactment that steadily morphs into something sinister. The narrator, 17-year-old Silvie, is forced by her domineering father, a history buff, to join a group of three...
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Sarah Moss. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25 (208p) ISBN 978-0-374-10593-8
Moss’s taut latest (after Ghost Wall) turns a rain-drenched park in the Scottish Highlands into a site of tension and unease for a group of vacationing strangers. The book opens with a middle-aged woman going for a run in the early morning, her...
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Sarah Moss. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25 (192p) ISBN 978-0-374-60604-6
Moss follows Summerwater with a revealing if tepid account of a family’s frustrations and fears while under quarantine during the Covid-19 pandemic. Kate and her teenage son, Matt, are in the middle of a mandated two-week lockdown at their home in...
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Sarah Moss. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27 (320p) ISBN 978-0-374-61463-8
Moss (The Fell) masterfully evokes the insidiousness of self-doubt in this poetic account of growing up with an eating disorder in 1980s Scotland. In forceful second-person narration (“You could never be small enough, blonde enough”), Moss catalogs...
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