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Carole Maso


Born
Paterson, New Jersey, The United States
Genre
Literature & Fiction


Carole Maso is a contemporary American novelist and essayist, known for her experimental, poetic and fragmentary narratives often labeled as postmodern. She received a bachelor’s degree in English from Vassar College in 1977. Her first published novel was Ghost Dance, which appeared in 1986. Her best known novel is probably Defiance, which was published in 1998. Currently (2006) she is a professor of English at Brown University. She has previously held positions as a writer-in-residence at Illinois State and George Washington University, as well as teaching writing at Columbia University.

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Average rating: 4.03 · 3,868 ratings · 442 reviews · 24 distinct works • Similar authors
Ava
4.21 avg rating — 779 ratings — published 1993 — 12 editions
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The Art Lover
4.14 avg rating — 672 ratings — published 1990 — 8 editions
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The American Woman in the C...
4.05 avg rating — 351 ratings — published 1994 — 9 editions
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Ghost Dance
4.23 avg rating — 257 ratings — published 1986 — 10 editions
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Break Every Rule: Essays on...
4.24 avg rating — 246 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions
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Aureole: An Erotic Sequence
3.93 avg rating — 252 ratings — published 1996 — 6 editions
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Defiance
3.71 avg rating — 240 ratings — published 1998 — 5 editions
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Beauty Is Convulsive
3.76 avg rating — 225 ratings — published 2002 — 6 editions
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The Room Lit by Roses
4.19 avg rating — 106 ratings — published 2000 — 6 editions
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Mother and Child
3.80 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 2012 — 9 editions
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“I believe in books.”
― Carole Maso, The Room Lit by Roses
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“How I love them. How good they are. They endure endless hours of me talking about the future. They keep me near and at the same time bid me farewell. That is what real love is.”
― Carole Maso, The Art Lover
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“But sometimes even the sky is dangerous. I look up and see your face in the stars.”
― Carole Maso, The Art Lover
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