When the world was steady
/ Claire Messud
- 1st Vintage Books ed.
- New York : Vintage Books , 2007.
- 270 p. ; 21 cm.
First published in Great Britain by Granta Books 1994 in association with Penguin Books.
Two sisters, middle-aged and alienated from each other, find that their steady worlds are disintegrating. The sisters' self-scrutiny, their encounters with strangeness, and finally with each other are described in prose of unusual grace and power.