Authors: Susan Minot
B0042JSO2G EBOK (30 page)
Fiction/Literature/978-0-375-70836-7
RAPTURE
The setting is a New York apartment where 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 fiancée. 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.
Fiction/978-0-375-72788-7
VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES
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FIRST VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES EDITION, SEPTEMBER 1999
Copyright © 1998 by Susan Minot
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1998.
Vintage Books, Vintage Contemporaries, and colophon are trademarks of Random House, Inc.
The Library of Congress has cataloged the Knopf edition as follows:
Minot, Susan
Evening / Susan Minot.—1st American ed.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-75878-1
I. Title.
PS3563.I4755E84 1998
813.54—dc21 98-15437
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