Innocents and Others
Dana Spiotta
17 November 2016
9781509839698Synopsis
Meadow Mori and Carrie Wexler grew up together in Los Angeles, and both became filmmakers.
Meadow makes challenging documentaries; Carrie makes successful feature films with a feminist slant. The two friends have everything in common--except their views on sex, power, movie-making, and morality. And yet their loyalty trumps their different approaches to film and to life.
Until, one day, a mysterious woman with a unique ability to enthral men over the phone becomes the subject of one of Meadow's documentaries, and throws everything into jeopardy.
Heart-breaking and insightful, Innocents and Others is an extraordinary novel about friendship, filmmaking, loneliness and art.
A wonderfully gifted writer with an uncanny feel for the absurdities and sadnesses of contemporary lifeMichiko Kakutani, New York Times
A thrillingly complex and emotionally astute novel about fame, power, and alienation steeped in a dark eroticism and a particularly American kind of lonelinessVanity Fair
A literary marvel . . . As Don DeLillo did for rock and roll with Great Jones St., so Spiotta does for film. . .Her aim is nothing less than redemption, and she deliversMary Karr, author of The Liars’ Club
