Miss Aluminum

Author: Susanna Moore

Fans of Susanna Moore will find this memoir, set largely in and around Hollywood, intriguing not only for insight into her but into others as well.

Moore is the author of the novels One Last Look, In the Cut, The Whiteness of Bones, Sleeping Beauties, and My Old Sweetheart

Her nonfiction travel book, I Myself Have Seen It, was published by the National Geographic Society in 2003.

A review in goodreads.com said: “Beneath Miss Aluminum’s glittering fairytale surface lies the story of a girl’s insatiable hunger to learn and her anguished determination to understand the circumstances of her mother’s death.”

It added that Moore gives “us a sardonic, often humorous portrait of Hollywood in the 70s, and of a young woman’s hard-won arrival at selfhood.”

In a review for The New York Times, Lisa Schwarzbaum said Moore “told us crucial pieces of her life story nearly 40 years ago.“

In her first novel, My Old Sweetheart, Moore assigned to a character named Lily many of the circumstances that made her the unsettling siren of a writer she is.

Courtesy: (Arabnews)