01943cam a22002895i 4500003000400000005001700004008004100021020003000062040004100092082000700133100003600140245004100176260004200217300002300259336002100282337002500303338002300328520107600351541003201427546001201459650004101471650002801512650004401540650002201584655002701606655002001633OSt20251027153716.0140408s2014    miu     d     000 1 eng    a9780307596901 [hardbound]  bengerdacUniversity of Cebu-Banilad002231 aMessud, Claire,d1966-eauthor.14aThe woman upstairs /cClaire Messud.  aNew York : bAlfred A. Knopf,cc2013.  a253 pages ;c22 cm  atext2rdacontent  aunmediated2rdamedia  avolume2rdacarrier  aNora Eldridge, a 37-year-old elementary school teacher in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who long ago abandoned her ambition to be a successful artist, has become the "woman upstairs", a reliable friend and tidy neighbor always on the fringe of others' achievements. Then into her classroom walks Reza Shahid, a child who enchants as if from a fairy tale. He and his parents - dashing Skandar, a Lebanese scholar and professor at the École Normale Supérleure; and Sirena, an effortlessly glamorous Italian artist - have come to Boston for Skandar to take up a fellowship at Harvard. When Reza is attacked by schoolyard bullies who call him a "terrorist" Nora is drawn into the complex world of the Shahid family: She finds herself falling in love with them, separately and together. Nora's happiness explodes her boundaries, until Sirena's careless ambition leads to a shattering betrayal. Told with urgency, intimacy, and piercing emotion, this story of obsession and artistic fulfillment explores the thrill - and the devastating cost - of giving in to one's passions.

  ySenior High SchoolzFiction  aEnglish 0aElementary school teachersvFiction. 0aWomen artistsvFiction. 0aTeacher-student relationshipsvFiction. 0aLarge type books. 0aPsychological fiction. 7aFiction.2lcgft