Beneath Miss Aluminumâs glittering fairytale surface lies the story of a girlâs insatiable hunger to learn and her anguished determination to understand the circumstances of her motherâs death. Moore gives us a sardonic portrait of Hollywood in the seventies, and of a young womanâs hard-won arrival at selfhood.
What The Reviewers Say
Marion Winik,
The Washington Post
As readers of Moore’s fiction know, she is a brilliant storyteller and sentence-maker.
Lisa Schwarzbaum,
The New York Times Book Review
... striking.
Fiona Sturges,
The Guardian (UK)
... poignant and hugely entertaining.
Sheila Weller,
Air Mail
It’s easy to sympathize with Moore’s embodiment of the painful, deeply sexist strictures of those years.