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Lauren Groff
Set in the 1600s, beginning with a voyage across the Atlantic, this is Lauren Groff's inventive novel The Vaster Wilds.
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Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. At age twenty-two, Lotto and Mathilde are tall, glamorous, madly in love and destined for greatness. A decade later, their…
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A dazzling work of literature, Matrix gathers currents of violence, sensuality and ecstasy in a mesmerising portrait of consuming passion and womanhood.
Lauren Groff, Heidi Pitlor
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…
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In these vigorous stories, Lauren Groff brings her electric storytelling to a world in which storms, snakes and sinkholes lurk at the edge of everyday life, but the greater threats…
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Covers nine stories of vastly different styles and structures, including L De Bard and Aliette that recreates the tale of Abelard and Heloise in New York during the 1918 flu…
A profound and explosive novel about a spirited girl alone in the wilderness, trying to survive
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In the fields of western New York State in the 1970s, on the grounds of a decaying mansion called Arcadia House, a few dozen idealists set out to live off…
Virginia Woolf, Lauren Groff
"Virginia Woolf's classic extended essay, first published in 1929, arguing for a world in which women can fully make use of their gifts, in a new Vintage Classics edition with…
Ann Schlee
Can it possibly matter that we allow two young people to imagine that they love one another when in two days' time they will in any event be parted?
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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2023
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR, TIME, ESQUIRE, VOGUE, LA TIMES, SLATE, HARPER'S…
Helen Garner
The novel that launched the career of one of Australia's greatest writers, following the doomed infatuations of a young, single mother, enthralled by the excesses of Melbourne's late-70s counterculture
The…
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On a Victorian pleasure cruise, a chance encounter opens the floodgates to regret, desire, and possibility in this "little period gem of feeling and clarity" (The Guardian). It is 1851…
Yet she deeply misses her secret lover Cecily and queen Eleanor. Born last in a long line of women warriors and crusaders, women who flew across the countryside with their…
**A BARACK OBAMA BOOK OF THE YEAR** **2018 National Book Awards Finalist** In these vigorous stories, Lauren Groff brings her electric storytelling to a world in which storms, snakes and…
Lauren Groff,Lauren Groff
Lauren Groff ha creado una novela magistral que sorprende desde la primera pagina y que ha triunfado en el mundo anglosajon por su madurez y su talento narrativo. La novela…
Willie Cooper arrives on the doorstep of her ancestral home in Templeton, New York in the wake of a disastrous affair with her much older, married archaeology professor. That same…
Matrix is a gorgeous, sensual, addictive read’ SARA COLLINS __________________________________ MEET THE INDOMITABLE MARIE DE FRANCE Born from a long line of female warriors and crusaders, yet too coarse, too…
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…
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF MATRIX AND FATES AND FURIES
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
'Exhilarating' GUARDIAN 'Her writing has a timeless quality' THE TIMES ' Has a visionary…
A collection of short stories capturing the lives and interactions of a wide spectrum of characters across the landscape of Florida.
"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…
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. –Provided by publisher.
At age twenty-two, Lotto and Mathilde are tall, glamorous, madly in love, and destined for greatness. A decade later, their marriage is still the envy of their friends, but with…
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Bookhabits
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff: Conversation Starters
A Brief Look Inside:
EVERY GOOD BOOK CONTAINS A WORLD FAR DEEPER than the surface of its pages. The characters and their…
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Lorrie Moore
The first one-volume collection of all of Lorrie Moore’s short stories, with an introduction by Lauren Groff –
El drama de monjas medievales que no sabias que necesitabas (Vulture): un retrato de la indomable Maria de Francia, por la autora que deslumbro a Barack Obama y a la…
Whizbooks
Summary of Fates and Furies: A Novel by Lauren Groff: Trivia/Quiz for Fans Features You’ll Discover Inside: - A comprehensive guide to aid in discussion and discovery - 30 multiple…
Nancy Hale
Rediscover the masterful stories of a midcentury artist whose multifaceted portraits of women were generations ahead of her time
A stunning, crystalline collection. -Vogue
Nancy Hale was considered one of…
Nancy Hale,Lauren Groff
Lauren Groff invites a new generation of readers to rediscover the haunting stories of a neglected mid-century master.
These humorous and poignant tales of lovers, loneliness, and never-quite-belonging, delivered in her characteristically knowing, wry voice, confirm Lorrie Moore as a master of the short story form.
Flannery O'Connor
With a new introduction from New York Times bestselling author Groff, these classic stories established O'Connor’s reputation as one of the American masters of the short story.
Shirley Hazzard
The Transit of Venus tells the story of two orphan sisters, Caroline and Grace Bell, as they leave Australia to start a new life in postwar England. What happens to…
Lauren Groff, Jenny Minton Quigley
The prestigious annual story anthology, now in its third year with a new guest editor format and with a new track record as a national bestseller
The prestigious annual story…
Virginia Woolf,Lauren Groff
The 100th Anniversary Edition of Virginia Woolf’s timely, overlooked second novel-a remarkable story of two women navigating the possibilities opened up by the struggle for women’s suffrage-introduced for Restless Classics…
Some yearly issues published as: The PEN/O. Henry prize stories.
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Tove Jansson
Stories first published in Swedish by schildts Forlags Ab, Finland; Translations first published in English in A winter book (2006), Travelling light (2010), Art in nature (2012), and The listener…
Anastasia Samoylova
Sunshine state. Swampland paradise. Tourist aspiration. Real estate racket. Refuge of excess. Political swing-state. Subtropical fever dream. With forms of nature and culture found nowhere else, Florida is unique. It…
Simpsonistas: Vol. 4 begins at the onset of creation. Conversations and references dot the pages of authors acclaimed and emerging-with many of the stories weaving together sensation and interpretation. We…
With a vast selection of works from the last two decades and Polaroids of the artist's studio, this mid-career catalog provides unique perspective on Schutz's oeuvre and methods
Dana Schutz…
Laura Furman
These are the 20 of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazines. Also included are essays from the jurors on their favorite stories…
