Lust and Other Stories

“A superbly organized, poignant, and profound collection” (The New York Times Book Review) that explores the delicate emotional negotiations of young New Yorkers in their struggle for intimacy—from the award-winning author of Evening.

“The stories in Lust are beautiful evocations of betrayal and the resulting loneliness. . . . Spare, colloquial, understated—each has a striking identifying feature to set it apart.”—Milwaukee Journal
 
The sophisticated lawyers, artists, actors, and journalists who people these brilliant tales are in equal parts cynical and fragile. Ironic, realistic, yet unbelievably passionate, they find connectedness to be more complicated—and more elusive—than they had ever imagined. These stories uncover small moments that yield larger truths about the ways in which women and men come together and come apart again, about the disappointments and hopes of lovers who know what they want but don’t always know how to keep it. 
 
With a flair for the telling detail and a sensibility finely attuned to the heart’s deepest longings, Susan Minot has created a deeply thoughtful meditation on the nature of desire and loss.“Susan Minot has a laser instinct for the clinching detail and the giveaway phrase. . . . A writer to watch.”—Time

“Minot is a master at putting into frame and focus the tiny, daily scenes that reverberate with large implication.”—Mademoiselle

“A superbly organized, poignant and profound collection.”—The New York Times Book ReviewSusan Minot is an award-winning novelist, short-story writer, poet, and screenwriter. Her first novel, Monkeys, was published in a dozen countries and won the Prix Femina Étranger in France. Her novel Evening was a worldwide bestseller and became a major motion picture. She lives with her daughter in New York City and on an island off the coast of Maine.Author of Evening