Synopsis
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.
Details
17 November 2016
288 pages
9781509839698
Imprint: Picador
Reviews
“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 delivers”Mary Karr, author of The Liars’ Club
“Dana Spiotta is one of my favorite living writers and in this wondrous and mysterious novel, a spectacular and subtle meditation on sight and sound, she seems almost to channel Jean-Luc Godard. . . brilliant, and erotic, and pop”Rachel Kushner, author of The Flamethrowers
“A fine novel. . . flawless and epic”Joshua Ferris, author of To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
“A daring and beautiful meditation about selfishness and selflessness, and how to be in the world. A powerful book that will stay with me and continue to speak to me for a long time. Spiotta is a wonder”George Saunders, author of Tenth of December
