- American Short stories, Fiction, women, literary fiction
In her vigorous and moving new book, Lauren Groff brings her electric storytelling and intelligence to a world in which storms, snakes, and sinkholes lurk at the edges of everyday life, but the greater threats and mysteries are of a human, emotional, and psychological nature.
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- contemporarynostalgic
- rawmeticulous
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Lauren Groff
- First published
- 2018
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- Books on Tape, Penguin Random House, Riverhead Books
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781785151880
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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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