Lauren Groff
Autor(a) de Fates and Furies
About the Author
Lauren Groff graduated from Amherst College and received an MFA in fiction from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Her books include The Monsters of Templeton, Delicate Edible Birds, and Fates and Furies. Arcadia won of the Medici Book Club Prize. Her fiction has also won the Paul Bowles Prize mostrar mais for Fiction, the PEN/O. Henry Award, and the Pushcart Prize. Her work has appeared in numerous magazines including the New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Tin House, One Story, McSweeney's, and Ploughshares, and in the anthologies 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, and three editions of the Best American Short Stories. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras por Lauren Groff
The Midnight Zone 8 exemplares
Monsters of Templeton 4 exemplares
Delicate Edible Birds [short story] 4 exemplares
Die weite Wildnis: Roman | New York Times Bestseller | »Ein hinreißender Roman.« Die Zeit 3 exemplares
Ghosts and Empties 2 exemplares
The Wind [short story] 2 exemplares
Dogs Go Wolf 1 exemplar
De weidse wildernis 1 exemplar
What's the Time, Mr Wolf? 1 exemplar
The Wife of the Dictator [short story] 1 exemplar
Birdie 1 exemplar
Fugue [short story] 1 exemplar
Watershed [short story] 1 exemplar
Blythe [short story] 1 exemplar
Majorette [short story] 1 exemplar
L. Debard and Aliette [short story] 1 exemplar
Lucky Chow Fun [short story] 1 exemplar
American Short Fiction Volume 18 Issue 60 1 exemplar
Groff Lauren 1 exemplar
Sir Fleeting [short story] 1 exemplar
Groff, Lauren Archive 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases (2020) — Contribuidor — 163 exemplares
McSweeney's Issue 49 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Cover Stories (2017) — Contribuidor — 52 exemplares
Astoria to Zion: Twenty-Six Stories of Risk and Abandon from Ecotone's First Decade (2014) — Contribuidor — 12 exemplares
The Second Shelf: A Quarterly of Rare Books & Words by Women (Issue 1, Autumn 2018) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1978-07-23
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Cooperstown, New York, USA
- Locais de residência
- Gainesville, Florida, USA
- Educação
- Amherst College
University of Wisconsin-Madison - Ocupações
- short story writer
novelist - Agente
- Bill Clegg (Burnes & Clegg, Inc.)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 32
- Also by
- 19
- Membros
- 11,190
- Popularidade
- #2,110
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Críticas
- 654
- ISBN
- 195
- Línguas
- 19
- Marcado como favorito
- 21
- Pedras de toque
- 528
I knew Lauren Groff's name from positive reviews on LT, so when I saw this beautiful looking book in the store, I picked it up. The glorious beast on the cover positively shimmered. The Washington Post blurb on the back cover told me that Groff "stakes her claim to being Florida's unofficial poet laureate, as Joan Didion was for California". Well, if she could write like Joan Didion, I had to read her.
There are eleven stories here, of which nine take place in Florida. While each centres around people, it is Florida that is the real protagonist. Unpredictable, menacing, there is a real sense of danger, whether in town or in the country. Feral cats, mould, rot, insects, sinkholes, torrential rain, wind, snakes, not to mention alligators: all can damage the soul as well as the body. Being alone turns to debilitating loneliness: .
In another story, "At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners", a deaf man out rowing loses his oars and drifts helplessly.
Abandonment is a theme in this collection. Buildings, careers, friends, partners, parents, even children, are left behind. In the final story, "Yport", Florida itself is left behind as a woman flees summer there to research a novel about Guy de Maupassant. Normandy is a complete contrast to Florida. Even though her two children are with her, loneliness still haunts her. In the end she realizes, Solitude is danger for a working mind. We need to keep around us people who think and speak.
When we are lonely for a long time, we people the void with phantoms. Although she adds de Maupassant said this in "Le Horla", perhaps this is Groff's message. In Florida, the phantoms are all too real.
As for me, Florida remains just as unknowable.… (mais)