Ebook {Epub PDF} Innocents and Others by Dana Spiotta

Spiotta is "a wonderfully gifted writer with an uncanny feel for the absurdities and sadnesses of contemporary life, and an unerring ear for how people talk and try to cope today" (The New York Times). Innocents and Others is her greatest novel - wise, artful, and beautiful.  · “Innocents and Others” is a combo-deal of a novel that mixes the silliness of a popcorn romp with the intellectual seriousness of a one-camera talking-head www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 9 mins. “Dana Spiotta’s fearless, ambitious new novel is the fourth in a remarkable series of deep dives into our culture’s obsession with fame and technological change Innocents and Others emphasizes the fragility of human connection in a world saturated with media and digital illusion Spiotta has been compared to Joan Didion and Don DeLillo, but as her work accumulates, it’s clear she’s one of a kind, .

From Dana Spiotta, the author of Wayward, Eat the Document, and Stone Arabia, "A brilliant novel about female friendship, the limits of love and work, and costs of claiming your right to celebrate your triumphs and own your mistakes" (Elle). Innocents and Others is about two women who grow up in LA in the 80s and become filmmakers. Meadow and Carrie have everything in common—except. Innocents. and Others. By Dana Spiotta (Scribner; pages; $25) Top Picks In Shopping. Shopping 14 'Ted Lasso' Gifts For Those Who Strive To 'Be A Goldfish. Dana Spiotta's Los Angeles in "Innocents and Others" is a lonely setting for three friends from high school forward. (Jessica Marx photo / Simon Schuster) From the start the essential quality of.

About The Book. From Dana Spiotta, the author of Wayward, Eat the Document, and Stone Arabia, “A brilliant novel about female friendship, the limits of love and work, and costs of claiming your right to celebrate your triumphs and own your mistakes” (Elle). Innocents and Others is about two women who grow up in LA in the 80s and become filmmakers. Meadow and Carrie have everything in common—except their views on sex, power, movie-making, and morality. “Innocents and Others” is a combo-deal of a novel that mixes the silliness of a popcorn romp with the intellectual seriousness of a one-camera talking-head commentary. An Amazon Best Book of March Typically brainy and surprisingly warm, Dana Spiotta’s Innocents and Others is the story of two best friends, filmmakers both, who have very different ideas about everything from movies to morality. Jelly is a third woman, more obviously messed up but probably, weirdly, as powerful in a certain world; she cold-calls important men and emotionally seduces them with her “active listening.”.