Innocents and Others : A Novel (Paperback)

from RidgewayGirl

I began reading this book armed only with the knowledge that a person whose taste in books is similar to mine made an off-hand comment about it being very good. The title gave me the expectation of the book being a collection of short stories, which was only the first surprising thing about this ...

from librarianbryan

Is it reductionist to say Spiotta's work is a response to so much media being readily available to creative types for the first time in history? Think of the role of internet in Eat the Document. Yeah, that's reductionist. Innocents and Others is a book about friendships, and how we build ourselv...

from midwestms

Beautiful novel showing the journey in the lives of two friends as they become artists. Beautiful imagry.

from BrandieC

As others have noted, Dana Spiotta's Innocents and Others is torpedoed by its cover copy, which promises a "collision" between the lives of filmmakers Meadow and Carrie and that of Jelly, who is described as "older, erotic, and mysterious," the purveyor of seductive phone - well, not sex exactly,...

from lisapeet

This was very ambitious, and had some interesting things to say about about communicating, the decisions involved in the creative process, what makes a good life, and telling truths vs. lies-all aspects of art-making (and life) that I'm interested in. But ultimately the book didn't hold together,...