- Hardcover: 192 pages
- Publisher: Picador; First Edition edition (26 April 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0330344528
- ISBN-13: 978-0330344524
- Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 13.8 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 213,786 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This psychological thriller revolves around a smart, self-determined woman living in New York City, whose life is thrown into turmoil following a number of murders in her neighbourhood.
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Pacy and erotic thriller
Frannie is good-looking, divorced, living alone in New York. She likes being on her own just as much as she likes sex, and she is not afraid to take risks. Then one night she surprises a handsome man with a red-headed woman in the basement of a bar. When the woman is found dead in Frannie's neighbourhood, her private but unsheltered life is overwhelmed with dark suspicions and even darker desires... "A ferociously uninhibited erotic thriller!" New York Times; "Moore has created a striking and memorable heroine: intelligent, brave, watchful and sexually adventurous...a brilliant, pacy, intense, erotic thriller, packed with beautifully observed detail, humming with melancholy" Independent; "Taps into the deep well of female obsession...builds up an atmosphere of thick sexual tension and arranges for its explosive release" New Yorker; "A compulsive page-turner" Guardian --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Frannie is good-looking, divorced, living alone in New York. She likes being on her own just as much as she likes sex, and she is not afraid to take risks. Then one night she surprises a handsome man with a red-headed woman in the basement of a bar. When the woman is found dead in Frannie's neighbourhood, her private but unsheltered life is overwhelmed with dark suspicions and even darker desires... "A ferociously uninhibited erotic thriller!" New York Times; "Moore has created a striking and memorable heroine: intelligent, brave, watchful and sexually adventurous...a brilliant, pacy, intense, erotic thriller, packed with beautifully observed detail, humming with melancholy" Independent; "Taps into the deep well of female obsession...builds up an atmosphere of thick sexual tension and arranges for its explosive release" New Yorker; "A compulsive page-turner" Guardian --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Gripping, haunting, and erotic,
By primitivegrrl "primitivegrrl" (Glasgow, Scotland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: In the Cut (Mass Market Paperback)
I decided to read this book after being intrigued by the film starring Meg Ryan. I didnt want to see the film as these so-called 'erotic-thrillers' are always hugely rubbish when transferred to film. Some things are best left inside your head, in the realms of the imagination- and this book is definitely one of those instances. The relationship Frannie develops with Mallory is like an unemotional, sexual car wreck - they dont seem to care about each other and are just driven headlong at each other by lust. This controlling nature that Mallory displays, whilst seemingly not ever attaching himself to anyone is compelling and really fuels the story. Moore says all that women think about sex, sexual encounters, and power but that women never say out loud. Her style of writing and lack of chapters, obvious plot breaks and lack of detailed explanations for things leave the reader as heady, lost, and driven as Frannie. For the first time I really saw and understood a main characters flaws, motivations, and desires. An excellent book - hell, I may even watch the film!
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Breathtaking Potential,
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This review is from: In the Cut (Mass Market Paperback)
Susanna Moore's in the cut is an amazing read, appropriating the American Thriller genre while critiquing US society. She depicts a world in which violence, silence and sexual oppression are part of women's everyday lives through Frannie's eyes, an academic who accompanies these injustices with poignant comments on semantic derogation and the way women are locked out of language.The novels ending (changed for the film) is the real clencher of this book. Shocking, disturbing and powerfully poetic, it leaves you stunned and wanting more. Moore does not provide her readers with definitive solutions, but instigates the stirrings of a political unrest aimed to induce a committed endeavour to secure sexual equality in an era in which political complacency has taken hold.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Sexy and compelling,
By A Customer
This review is from: In the Cut (Paperback)
I bought this book for something lightweight to read on a plane and discovered that it might be slim but it isn't slight! The classic whodunnit is given a modern edgy feel and the writing is cool, and delicious as sex; Frannie finds words both erotic and intriguing - much as I found her! It lingered in my mind long after reading the book, and I was delighted to find that Susanna Moore's first novel "My Old Sweetheart" was just as evocative and unsettling.
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