JILL CIMENT was born in Montreal, Canada. She has received many grants and awards, among them a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, two New York Foundation for the Arts fellowships, the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, and a Guggenheim fellowship. A professor at the University of Florida, she lives in Gainesville, Florida, and Brooklyn, New York.
“A fantastic rendering of female desire . . . Few writers can
tackle the bedroom—or female libido . . . but Ciment is a master:
in exquisitely spare prose, she nails it.”
—Penelope Green, The New York Times
“[The] deft orchestration of absurdity and existential dread
distinguishes Ciment's style. That's why the situation of Ciment's
latest novel, The Body in Question, is so perfectly suited to her
powers as a novelist . . . incisive . . . a profound story about
mortality and the mysteries of human behavior . . . smart and
disturbing.”
—Maureen Corrigan, NPR“Engaging, empathetic . . . This honest,
mature look at life and love adds to a growing body of evidence
leading to a decisive verdict: Ciment is an author well worth
reading.”
—Kirkus (starred review)“Stark and absorbing . . . scathingly funny
. . . a smart, compact, refreshingly unsentimental exploration of
the persistence of desire amid the fact of death.”
— The Wall Street Journal“Excellent . . . short and brisk,
propelled by the suspense of multiple questions . . . deft and
gripping.”
—Curtis Sittenfeld, The New York Times
“Stunningly concise. . . . Pulled me in right off the first page.
It’s a bravura performance, Ciment exercising almost flamboyant
control of her material.”
—Emily Donaldson, The Globe and Mail (Canada)
“Ciment . . . a virtuoso of the situational novel, has created a
hypnotizing, forked tale of trust and guilt, masks and doubling,
lies and desire, life and death.”
—Booklist
“Intriguing, swift-moving. . . . This novel will hook readers with
its powerful, magnetic narrative.”
—Publishers Weekly
“This book’s lean style and cool tone shape an unsentimental story
with unexpected depths. . . . Ciment gives her story a series of
wicked twists, some thrilling, some heart-wrenching.”
—The Tampa Bay Times
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