Lauren Groff
2) Matrix
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Language
English
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2021 National Book Award Longlists, Finalists, & WINNERS
2022 Audie Awards
Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2021
Staff Picks: Women's History Month (Adult)
2022 Audie Awards
Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2021
Staff Picks: Women's History Month (Adult)
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"Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease. At first taken aback by the severity of her new life, Marie finds focus and love in collective life with her singular and mercurial sisters. In this crucible, Marie steadily...
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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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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,...
Author
Language
English
Description
In the wake of a wildly disastrous affair with her married archaeology professor, Willie Upton arrives in Templeton, New York, expecting to be able to hide in the town her ancestors founded, but the same day she returns is the day a fifty-foot corpse of a monster surfaces in Lake Glimmerglass.
5) Arcadia
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English
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Description
The lyrical and haunting story of a great American dream--the progress of a utopian community and its lasting impact on a gifted young man.
6) Florida
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
WINNER OF THE STORY PRIZE
ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
From the universally acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author of Fates and Furies, Matrix, and the highly-anticipated The Vaster Wilds
Florida is a "superlative" book (Boston Globe), "frequently funny" (San Francisco Chronicle), "brooding, inventive and often...
WINNER OF THE STORY PRIZE
ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
From the universally acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author of Fates and Furies, Matrix, and the highly-anticipated The Vaster Wilds
Florida is a "superlative" book (Boston Globe), "frequently funny" (San Francisco Chronicle), "brooding, inventive and often...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 393
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The first one-volume collection of all of Lorrie Moore's short stories, with an introduction by Lauren Groff"--
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
From a Nigerian boy's friendship with his family's former houseboy to a sweatshop girl's experience as a sister wife, from love and murder on the frontier to a meltdown in academe, these stories have the economy and power to "break hearts bones vanities and cages."
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English
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An essential collection of classic stories that established Flannery O'Connor's reputation as an American master of fiction—now with a new introduction by New York Times bestselling author Lauren Groff In 1955, with the title story and others in this critical edition, Flannery O'Connor firmly laid claim to her place as one of the most original and provocative writers of her generation. Steeped in a Southern Gothic tradition...