Lauren Groff
Författare till Fates and Furies
Om författaren
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 visa mer 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) visa färre
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Verk av Lauren Groff
The Midnight Zone 8 exemplar
Delicate Edible Birds [short story] 4 exemplar
The Wind [short story] 2 exemplar
Ghosts and Empties 2 exemplar
The Wife of the Dictator [short story] 1 exemplar
Watershed [short story] 1 exemplar
Fugue [short story] 1 exemplar
Birdie 1 exemplar
Majorette [short story] 1 exemplar
L. Debard and Aliette [short story] 1 exemplar
Lucky Chow Fun [short story] 1 exemplar
What's the Time, Mr Wolf? 1 exemplar
American Short Fiction Volume 18 Issue 60 1 exemplar
Dogs Go Wolf 1 exemplar
Groff Lauren 1 exemplar
Groff, Lauren Archive 1 exemplar
Sir Fleeting [short story] 1 exemplar
Blythe [short story] 1 exemplar
Associerade verk
Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases (2020) — Bidragsgivare — 182 exemplar
McSweeney's Issue 49 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Cover Stories (2017) — Bidragsgivare — 56 exemplar
Astoria to Zion: Twenty-Six Stories of Risk and Abandon from Ecotone's First Decade (2014) — Bidragsgivare — 13 exemplar
The Second Shelf: A Quarterly of Rare Books & Words by Women (Issue 1, Autumn 2018) — Bidragsgivare — 3 exemplar
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Allmänna fakta
- Födelsedag
- 1978-07-23
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Cooperstown, New York, USA
- Bostadsorter
- Gainesville, Florida, USA
- Utbildning
- Amherst College
University of Wisconsin-Madison - Yrken
- short story writer
novelist - Agent
- Bill Clegg (Burnes & Clegg, Inc.)
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- 11,936
- Popularitet
- #1,965
- Betyg
- 3.7
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- ISBN
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- 18
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- 21
I found myself talking back to the book after having read & returned it. I liked the first half. The second half was difficult and I didn't really believe it.
Why was the gallery owner a sadist? Why did he expect her to want to stay with him when he mistreated her? Now as I'm writing I wonder -- did she respond sexually to the mistreatment & so he thought it was OK? But she responded so strongly to her husband in sex, and he wasn't a sadist. I am no expert but it seems inconsistent to me.
Was there a reason why the Uncle cut her off? Why did he adopt her if he didn't want to support her? He was rich and it would have been easy for him to pay for college. Why did the Uncle cave when she blackmailed him? He could have moved the painting and denied it all -- so he wanted to pay. Why then & not for college?
Can you really contact the FBI and tell them you have oodles of absolutely incriminating documents about a financial criminal and then tell them Never Mind? Was the private investigator so good that the FBI couldn't duplicate any of her investigation?
And....
The mother was shown thinking about how much she had done for her son. Was it that she rescued his son? I expected to find that the mother had bankrolled and supported the plays but that wasn't the case.
I don't know what I think of the man. He took his wife as he wanted her to be and never saw beyond that. Same with his friends.
I think the writing is skillful and talented but it left such bad feelings.… (mer)