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1) Florida
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"A collection of stories spanning centuries of time in mercurial Florida examines the decisions and connections behind life-changing events in characters ranging from two abandoned sisters to a conflicted family woman"--OCLC.
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"From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Monsters of Templeton and Arcadia, an exhilarating novel about marriage, creativity, art, and perception. Fates and Furies is a literary masterpiece that defies expectation. A dazzling examination of a marriage, it is also a portrait of creative partnership written by one of the best writers of her generation. Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. And sometimes,...
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From Lauren Groff, author of the critically acclaimed and bestselling novel Fates and Furies, comes Delicate Edible Birds, one of the most striking short fiction debuts in years. Here are nine stories of astonishing insight and variety, each revealing a resonant drama within the life of a twentieth-century American woman.
In "Sir Fleeting," a Midwestern farm girl on her honeymoon in Argentina falls into lifelong lust for a French playboy. In "Blythe,"...
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"The day I returned to Templeton steeped in disgrace, the fifty-foot corpse of a monster surfaced in Lake Glimmerglass." So begins The Monsters of Templeton, a novel spanning two centuries: part a contemporary story of a girl's search for her father, part historical novel, and part ghost story. In the wake of a disastrous love affair with her older, married archaeology professor at Stanford, brilliant Wilhelmina Cooper arrives back at the doorstep...
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"A servant girl escapes from a colonial settlement in the wilderness. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of god that burns hot within her. What she finds in this terra incognita is beyond the limits of her imagination and will bend her belief in everything that her own civilization has taught her. Lauren Groff's new novel is at once a thrilling adventure story and a penetrating fable about trying to find a...
6) Matrix
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Cast out of the royal court, 17-year-old Marie de France, born the last in a long line of women warriors, is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey where she vows to chart a bold new course for the women she now leads and protects.
7) Arcadia
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Lauren Groff's acclaimed debut novel The Monsters of Templeton was short-listed for the Orange Prize. Her second novel, Arcadia opens in the late 1960s with a group of young idealists forming a commune in western New York State. Into this group is born Bit, who grows into a quiet, distant man. Over the course of 50 years, Bit witnesses the utopia crumble and the world change in unimaginable ways.
8) Les Furies
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Lotto et Mathilde sont beaux, séduisants, follement amoureux. Promis à un avenir radieux, ils se marient très vite. Dix ans plus tard, Lotto est devenu un dramaturge au succès planétaire ; Mathilde, dans l'ombre, l'a toujours soutenu. Leur couple est l'image type d'un partenariat réussi. Mais les histoires d'amour parfaites cachent souvent des secrets qu'il vaudrait mieux taire…
Née en 1978, Lauren Groff est notamment l'autrice des Monstres...
9) Arkadiya
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Glavnyy geroy romana, Kroh, vyros v kommune, kotoruyu v semidesyatyh organizovali neskolko desyatkov entuziastov na zapade shtata Nyu-York. V kommune pytalis zhit soobscha, vmeste vospityvat detey, pitatsya tem, chto vyrastili sami. No vsyakoy utopii prihodit konets. Kogda kommuna raspadaetsya, Kroh otpravlyaetsya v bolshoy mir i privykaet zhit v nem, no sudba povorachivaetsya neozhidannym obrazom, i mnogo let spustya Kroh vozvraschaetsya v Arkadiyu,...
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« Sa capuche tombait bas sur son visage, frêle était-elle, osseuse, menue, telle une enfant, réduite par la faim à presque rien, à sa racine, ses nerfs, ses fibres, ses tendons. Bien qu'affamée et aveuglée par les ténèbres, elle était vive. »
Une jeune fille semble perdue au cœur de la forêt la plus obscure. Nous sommes au XVIIe siècle, dans un territoire qui deviendra les États-Unis. Elle vient de s'échapper, elle court loin...
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A collection of the year's best short stories, selected by celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, author of Matrix and “The Vaster Wilds”, and series editor Heidi Pitlor.
“There have never been as many exquisitely built stories in existence than there are now,” proclaims guest editor Lauren Groff in her introduction. This abundance led to a volume of robust stories with the nerve to push against narrative expectations. The Best American...
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"Contains twenty prizewinning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year. Guest editor Lauren Groff has selected an exciting and engaging variety of stories by an international array of both celebrated and emerging writers. The winning stories are accompanied by an introduction by Groff, fascinating observations from the winning writers on what inspired their work, and an extensive and useful directory of magazines...