Florida / Lauren Groff.
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. Among those navigating it all are a resourceful pair of abandoned sisters; a lonely boy, grown up; a restless, childless couple; a searching, homeless woman; and an unforgettable, recurring character - a steely and conflicted wife and mother. The stories in this collection span characters, towns, decades, even centuries, but Florida - its landscape, climate, history, and state of mind - becomes the gravitational center: an energy, a mood, as much as a place of residence. Groff transports us, then jolts us alert with a crackle of wit, a wave of sadness, a flash of cruelty, as she writes about loneliness, rage, family, and the passage of time. With shocking accuracy and effect, she pinpoints the moments and decisions and connections behind human pleasure and pain, hope and despair, love and fury - the moments that make us alive. Startling, precise, and affecting, Florida is a magnificent achievement. -- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781594634512
- ISBN: 1594634513
- Physical Description: 275 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2018.
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | Ghosts and Empties -- At the Round Earth's Imagined -- Corners -- Dogs Go Wolf -- The Midnight Zone -- Eyewall -- For the God of Love, for the Love of God -- Salvador -- Flower Hunters -- Above and Below -- Snake Stories -- Yport -- Acknowledgments. |
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Subject: | Short stories, American. Interpersonal relations > Fiction. City and town life > Fiction. Florida > Fiction. |
Genre: | Short stories. |
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- 3 of 3 copies available at Lackawanna County Library System.
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Albright Memorial Library | FICTION GROFF (Text) | 50686015296408 | Storage | Available | - | ||
Dalton Community Library | FICTION GROFF (Text) | 50689010421385 | Adult Fiction | Available | - | ||
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