000			02060cam a22003255i 4500
003			OSt
005			20251027153716.0
008			140408s2014 miu d 000 1 eng
020			_a9780307596901 [hardbound]
040			_beng _erda _cUniversity of Cebu-Banilad
082	0	0	_223
100	1		_aMessud, Claire, _d1966- _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe woman upstairs / _cClaire Messud.
260			_aNew York : _bAlfred A. Knopf, _cc2013.
300			_a253 pages ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
520			_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.
541			_ySenior High School _zFiction
546			_aEnglish
650		0	_aElementary school teachers _vFiction.
650		0	_aWomen artists _vFiction.
650		0	_aTeacher-student relationships _vFiction.
650		0	_aLarge type books.
655		0	_aPsychological fiction.
655		7	_aFiction. _2lcgft
942			_2ddc _cBK
998			_cadryann[new] _d10/27/2025
999			_c14581 _d14581