Susanna Moore

In The Life of Objects (Alfred A. Knopf) the author of such acclaimed works as The Big Girls, In the Cut, and My Old Sweetheart brings us the tragic, suspenseful tale of a glamorous, courageous and seductive bevy of art collectors in the Germany of World War II, and the young Irish Protestant lace-maker who comes to serve them.  Advance word has proclaimed it Moore's best book yet, and Joan Didion calls it  "exhilarating...truly exciting, new, everything good...every word."