Stealing Beauty [Paperback]

Susan Minot (Author), Bernardo Bertolucci (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 110 pages
• Publisher: Grove Press; 1st edition (July 2, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0802134920
• ISBN-13: 978-0802134929
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #454,092 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Susan Minot is an award-winning novelist and short story writer whose books include Monkeys, Folly, Lust & Other Stories, and Evening, which was adapted into the feature film of the same name starring Meryl Streep. Minot was born in Boston and raised in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts, attended Brown University, and received her MFA in creative writing from Columbia University. She currently lives with her daughter in both New York City and an island off the coast of Maine.

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars IT'S A SCREENPLAY!, June 14, 2008

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Levin Evens (Belfast, Northern Ireland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stealing Beauty (Paperback)

This is not a novel based on the movie. It seems none of the previous reviewers understand they are reading a screenplay---an excellent screenplay.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not as good as the movie, June 4, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Stealing Beauty (Paperback)

This book was a spin-off from the movie, Stealing Beauty, and like most books based on movies, the book fails to capture the mood and romance of the original. Description of the Italian countryside in this books pales in comparision to Bertoluccis' masterful use of the camera. The magnetic appeal of the film is lost in second-rate descriptive attempts and clumsy use of words. Regretfully, the author gets caught up in retelling the movie's blocking and action scene by scene and forgets to focus on the characters and the story being told.

However, if you enjoyed following Lucy's coming of age story and want to relive the moments, you could like this book.

For people who loved the film, Stealing Beauty may be worth a look. For everyone else, I'm sure you could easily find a more thoughtful, worthwhile and enjoyable book to read.

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful, absolutely touching, November 12, 2001

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"laurellk" (Ohio, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stealing Beauty (Paperback)

This movie is unbelievably bello, carino, it is beautiful. The story is touching, the landscape is like candy, and the ending is beautiful as well. Lucy is a girl almost a woman, who is searching for her the answer to an intriguing passage she found in her mother's diary. She is also searching for the boy, now almost a man also, who she kissed the last time she visited the breathtaking Italian villa four years past. This movie will leave you feeling like you have just witnessed a moment of beauty so strong and so intense that you will feel changed.