Synopsis
Meadow Mori and Carrie Wexler grew up together in Los Angeles, and both became filmmakers.
Meadow makes challenging documentaries; Carrie makes successful feature films with a feminist slant. The two friends have everything in common--except their views on sex, power, movie-making, and morality. And yet their loyalty trumps their different approaches to film and to life.
Until, one day, a mysterious woman with a unique ability to enthral men over the phone becomes the subject of one of Meadow's documentaries, and throws everything into jeopardy.
Heart-breaking and insightful, Innocents and Others is an extraordinary novel about friendship, filmmaking, loneliness and art.
Details
17 November 2016
9781509839698Imprint: Picador
Reviews
A wonderfully gifted writer with an uncanny feel for the absurdities and sadnesses of contemporary life
A thrillingly complex and emotionally astute novel about fame, power, and alienation steeped in a dark eroticism and a particularly American kind of loneliness
A literary marvel . . . As Don DeLillo did for rock and roll with Great Jones St., so Spiotta does for film. . .Her aim is nothing less than redemption, and she delivers
Dana Spiotta is one of my favorite living writers and in this wondrous and mysterious novel, a spectacular and subtle meditation on sight and sound, she seems almost to channel Jean-Luc Godard. . . brilliant, and erotic, and pop
