{"id":144846,"date":"2024-11-11T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=144846"},"modified":"2024-11-09T17:49:40","modified_gmt":"2024-11-09T23:49:40","slug":"thacker-mountain-radio-hour-susan-minot-for-dont-be-a-stranger-thursday-november-14-2024-at-6-pm-at-the-powerhouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/thacker-mountain-radio-hour-susan-minot-for-dont-be-a-stranger-thursday-november-14-2024-at-6-pm-at-the-powerhouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Thacker Mountain Radio Hour: Susan Minot for “Don\u2019t Be a Stranger”\u00a0Thursday, November 14, 2024 at 6 pm at The Powerhouse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Susan Minot for Don’t Be a Stranger <\/em>– a gripping, sensual, and provocative work from one of the most remarkable voices in contemporary fiction.\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSusan Minot\u2019s writing is like a diamond knife on ice. Always has been.\u201d \u2014Elizabeth Strout, author of Olive Kitteridge <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About the book\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A mesmerizing new novel from the author of Evening<\/em>: the story of a\u00a0woman swept into a love affair at mid-life.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ivy Cooper is 52 years old when Ansel Fleming first walks into her life.\u00a0Twenty years her junior, a musician newly released from prison on a minor\u00a0drug charge, Ansel\u2019s beguiling good looks and quiet intensity instantly\u00a0seduce her. Despite the gulf between their ages and experience the\u00a0physical chemistry between them is overpowering, and over the heady\u00a0weeks and months that follow Ivy finds her life bifurcated by his presence:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the surface she is a responsible mother, managing the demands of\u00a0friends, an ex-husband, home; but emotionally, psychologically, sexually,\u00a0she is consumed by desire and increasingly alive only in the stolen\u00a0moments-out-of-time, with Ansel in her bed.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the author\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Susan Minot is an award-winning novelist, short-story writer, poet, and screenwriter. Her first novel, Monkeys<\/em>, was published in a dozen countries and won the Prix Femina \u00c9tranger in France. Her novel Evening <\/em>was a worldwide best seller and became a major motion picture. She lives with her daughter in New York City and on an island off the coast of Maine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Don\u2019t Be a Stranger\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>
By Susan Minot\u00a0
$28.00\u00a0
Publisher: Knopf\u00a0
ISBN: 9780593802441\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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