Elizabeth Cox is the author of Night Talk, The Ragged Way People
Fall Out of Love, Familiar Ground, and the story collection
Bargains in the Real World. She is an instructor at the Bennington
Graduate Writing Seminars and teaches at Wofford College in South
Carolina, where she shares the John Cobb Chair of the Humanities
with her husband, C. Michael Curtis. She lives in Spartanburg,
South Carolina.
From the Hardcover edition.
Advance praise for The Slow Moon
“I found myself pausing over the beauty of this book, and wishing
I’d been the one to think of it.”
–Jodi Picoult, author of The Tenth Circle
“Beautifully written and sympathetically imagined, The Slow Moon
tells its all-too-timely story without a shred of the sensational
or strident. Elizabeth Cox has a sensitive touch, and she brings to
rich life a deeply tangled web of characters. This is the kind of
book you will read in one long, rewarding sitting.”
–Rosellen Brown, author of Tender Mercies and Before and After
“Elizabeth Cox writes with assurance, style, and heart. She also
does something that is a reader’s delight, which is to take
risks–successfully. Anytime Elizabeth Cox writes a book, I’ll read
it.”
–Elizabeth Berg, author of We Are All Welcome Here and The Year of
Pleasures
“I am always searching for the perfect read: A combination of
eloquent sentences and a gripping narrative, and I was simply
entranced by The Slow Moon. Each character is fully alive, and I
savored discovering how one mistake transforms their town. This
book is heartbreaking and hopeful."
–Amanda Eyre Ward, author of How to Be Lost
Cox's carefully wrought latest (following Familiar Ground) delineates the heartbreaking cruelty that sunders a group of adolescent friends in a small Tennessee town. During a late-night party, high school sweethearts Sophie and Crow go off into the woods. When Crow leaves Sophie for 20 minutes to fetch a condom, she's raped and beaten by a group of boys she will not be able to identify after the trauma. To the shock of the town, Crow, known to be a fine and upstanding young man, is charged with her attack. Cox painstakingly enters the consciousness of the various characters who have a stake in Crow's fate, including his diffident, religious mother, Helen, and adulterous stepfather, Carl; Crow's younger brother, Johnny, who struggles to come to terms with his homosexual attraction for Tom, one of the boys in Crow's band; the judge adjudicating Crow's case, Aurelia Bailey, who has to manage her own troubled teenage boy, Bobbie; and other teens and townsfolk. The fact of Crow's innocence is plain to all, yet no one moves to defend him, not even Sophie, who claims she can't remember what happened. Cox stands back and lets the truth emerge with quiet determination. (Aug. 8) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
Advance praise for The Slow Moon
"I found myself pausing over the beauty of this book, and wishing
I'd been the one to think of it."
-Jodi Picoult, author of The Tenth Circle
"Beautifully written and sympathetically imagined, The Slow Moon
tells its all-too-timely story without a shred of the sensational
or strident. Elizabeth Cox has a sensitive touch, and she brings to
rich life a deeply tangled web of characters. This is the kind of
book you will read in one long, rewarding sitting."
-Rosellen Brown, author of Tender Mercies and Before and
After
"Elizabeth Cox writes with assurance, style, and heart. She also
does something that is a reader's delight, which is to take
risks-successfully. Anytime Elizabeth Cox writes a book, I'll read
it."
-Elizabeth Berg, author of We Are All Welcome Here and
The Year of Pleasures
"I am always searching for the perfect read: A combination of
eloquent sentences and a gripping narrative, and I was simply
entranced by The Slow Moon. Each character is fully alive, and I
savored discovering how one mistake transforms their town. This
book is heartbreaking and hopeful."
-Amanda Eyre Ward, author of How to Be Lost
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