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Lily Tuck
First glimpsed riding on the back of a boy's motorcycle, fourteen-year-old Czeslawa comes to life in this mesmerizing novel by Lily Tuck, who imagines her upbringing in a small Polish…
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Originally published: Grove Atlantic, Inc., 2017.
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From one of America’s most acclaimed writers, an elegant and biting portrait of a marriage and a woman consumed by secrecy and jealousy.
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[Stories that] span the better part of the twentieth century and almost every continent, revealing apprehensions, passions, secrets, and tragedies among lovers, spouses, landlords and tenants, and lifelong friends –Page…
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A mesmerizing new novella and stories from National Book Award winner Lily Tuck
Originally published: [New York]: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991.
Mixing family lore, historical events, and photographs, this autobiographical novel creates a portrait of the writer as a young woman…enlivening. –New Yorker A mosaic of storytelling that is both poetic…
From National Book Award winner Lily Tuck, a beguiling and subversive short novel of jealousy and desire that tells the story of a new marriage from its surprising inception through…
With one night to remember a lifetime, I Married You for Happiness is a riveting and deeply moving love story.
The first biography in any language of one of the most celebrated Italian writers of the twentieth century.
Born in 1912 to an unconventional family of modest means, Elsa Morante…
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In these stories, limbo can be seen as both a sense of place, and a sense of being. Tuck’s characters are often traveling far from home, or find themselves out…
Pursued by the future dictator of Paraguay, Irish courtesan Ella Lynch struggles with isolation in spite of her power as his mistress, and witnesses the nation’s victimization due to her…
A deeply moving story of a 43-year-old marriage by National Book Award winner Tuck unfolds over a single night as a grieving wife remembers the defining moments of their long…
Jean Echenoz
‘I’m Gone’ tells the story of an urbane art and antiques dealer who abandons his wife and career to pursue a memorably pathetic international crime spree.
Some yearly issues published as: The PEN/O. Henry prize stories.
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