Monkeys by Susan Minot Vintage Paperback Book

Monkeys

by Susan Minot

The Marvelous National Bestseller

"The Vincents are the stock of privilege, of old New England wealth... Augustus Paine Vincent, his high-spirited Catholic wife, Rosie, and the seven children, their mother's monkeys. In this affecting fiction about a Massachusetts family, Susan Minot creates, in a most understated way, a backdrop of surpassing warmth among the siblings that endures everything from a querulous Thanksgiving dinner to a tragic accident. This first novel is a startling, penetrating experience."  -People

"Susan Minot's quietly luminous children are voyagers in a past marked by seaside privilege, ritual Catholicism, and the mysterious loneliness of adults. Her oblique prose establishes a country of childhood in which grief exists like a  premonition, and children are the saviors of children."  -Jayne Anne Phillips 

"Like John Irving and Evelyn Waugh, Minot knows how to blend the touching with the macabre... She is a gifted  writer."  - Time 

"MONKEYS is a rare book - a subtle, funny and often extremely moving first novel... heartbreaking... exhilarating. Not since J.D. Salinger has an American writer so feelingly evoked the special affections and loyalties that may develop among children in a large family."  -The New York Times Book Review 

"Susan Minot is one of the youngest and most impressive new arrivals on the literary scene ... Monkeys takes your breath away." -Anne Tyler

Pages in unmarked condition. Minor shelf wear to edges and corners of cover. Top of spine has some light cracking.