- Coming of age, Nineteen sixties, Fiction, Communal living
In the fields of western New York State in the 1970s, a few dozen idealists set out to live off the land, founding a commune centered on the grounds of a decaying mansion called Arcadia House.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and nostalgic.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Lauren Groff
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 301
- Publisher
- Voice, Thorndike Press, Penguin Random House
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781471200106
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Lauren Groff is the author of the novels The Monsters of Templeton, shortlisted for the Orange Prize for New Writers, Delicate Edible Birds, a collection of stories, and Arcadia, a New York Times Notable Book, winner of the Medici Book Club Prize, and finalist for the L.A. Times Book Award. Her third novel, Fates and Furies, was a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Kirkus Award. It won the 2015 American Booksellers’ Association Indies’ Choice Award for Fiction, was a New York Times Notable book and Bestseller, Amazon.com’s #1 book of 2015, and on over two dozen best-of 2015 lists. It also received the 2016 American Bookseller Asso
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