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
Monsters of Templeton 4 exemplar
Die weite Wildnis: Roman | New York Times Bestseller | »Ein hinreißender Roman.« Die Zeit 4 exemplar
Delicate Edible Birds [short story] 4 exemplar
Ghosts and Empties 2 exemplar
The Wind [short story] 2 exemplar
Dogs Go Wolf 1 exemplar
What's the Time, Mr Wolf? 1 exemplar
Blythe [short story] 1 exemplar
Birdie 1 exemplar
Fugue [short story] 1 exemplar
Watershed [short story] 1 exemplar
The Wife of the Dictator [short story] 1 exemplar
Majorette [short story] 1 exemplar
L. Debard and Aliette [short story] 1 exemplar
Lucky Chow Fun [short story] 1 exemplar
American Short Fiction Volume 18 Issue 60 1 exemplar
Groff Lauren 1 exemplar
Sir Fleeting [short story] 1 exemplar
Groff, Lauren Archive 1 exemplar
Associerade verk
Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases (2020) — Bidragsgivare — 166 exemplar
McSweeney's Issue 49 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Cover Stories (2017) — Bidragsgivare — 53 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
Taggad
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.)
Medlemmar
Recensioner
Matrix: A Novel av Lauren Groff
An unexpected and engrossing read. Amazing how Groff portrays a whole world and life in very few pages.
The language on display here is alone worth the price of admission. Like a thick jungle underbrush, it is dense but beautiful, teeming with life and filled with ferocity. The characters can sometimes be ciphers, but part of that is style and it doesn't ultimately detract from the emotional heft of the book. I really loved this and want to read more of her work.
Lauren Groff presents a readable, believable, fascinating story of life in 12th century England. It tells us a fictionalized life of Marie de France, a poet, who in this novel becomes the Matrix, or Mother, of a poor abby of nuns. She despairs at first of her fate, then becomes a force to be reckoned with.
The dust jacket says Matrix is "alive to the sacred and the profane," and that is certainly my experience of this extraordinary novel.
The dust jacket says Matrix is "alive to the sacred and the profane," and that is certainly my experience of this extraordinary novel.
Florida has never seemed like a defined, real place to me. My early impressions of it came from my father's Pogo books, and from beautiful yet sinister storm sets in old black and white films. Then came the fight over Elián González, and hanging chads. All very interesting, but not enough to get any sort of cogent idea of the place. Pictures of elderly citizens flooding it annually in winter in their gated communities, along with real floods from hurricanes don't help.
I knew Lauren Groff's name from positive reviews on LT, so when I saw this beautiful looking book in the store, I picked it up. The glorious beast on the cover positively shimmered. The Washington Post blurb on the back cover told me that Groff "stakes her claim to being Florida's unofficial poet laureate, as Joan Didion was for California". Well, if she could write like Joan Didion, I had to read her.
There are eleven stories here, of which nine take place in Florida. While each centres around people, it is Florida that is the real protagonist. Unpredictable, menacing, there is a real sense of danger, whether in town or in the country. Feral cats, mould, rot, insects, sinkholes, torrential rain, wind, snakes, not to mention alligators: all can damage the soul as well as the body. Being alone turns to debilitating loneliness:
In another story, "At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners", a deaf man out rowing loses his oars and drifts helplessly.
Abandonment is a theme in this collection. Buildings, careers, friends, partners, parents, even children, are left behind. In the final story, "Yport", Florida itself is left behind as a woman flees summer there to research a novel about Guy de Maupassant. Normandy is a complete contrast to Florida. Even though her two children are with her, loneliness still haunts her. In the end she realizes, Solitude is danger for a working mind. We need to keep around us people who think and speak.
When we are lonely for a long time, we people the void with phantoms. Although she adds de Maupassant said this in "Le Horla", perhaps this is Groff's message. In Florida, the phantoms are all too real.
As for me, Florida remains just as unknowable.… (mer)
I knew Lauren Groff's name from positive reviews on LT, so when I saw this beautiful looking book in the store, I picked it up. The glorious beast on the cover positively shimmered. The Washington Post blurb on the back cover told me that Groff "stakes her claim to being Florida's unofficial poet laureate, as Joan Didion was for California". Well, if she could write like Joan Didion, I had to read her.
There are eleven stories here, of which nine take place in Florida. While each centres around people, it is Florida that is the real protagonist. Unpredictable, menacing, there is a real sense of danger, whether in town or in the country. Feral cats, mould, rot, insects, sinkholes, torrential rain, wind, snakes, not to mention alligators: all can damage the soul as well as the body. Being alone turns to debilitating loneliness:
And now she is crying..
I'm not crying, she tells the dog, but the dog sighs deeply.
The dog needs to take a little break from her.
The dog stands and goes inside and crawls under the baby grand piano that she bought long ago from a lonely old lady, a piano that nobody plays.
A lonely old piano.
She always wanted to be the kind of person who could play the "Moonlight Sonata".
She buries her failure in this, as she buries all her failures in reading.
In another story, "At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners", a deaf man out rowing loses his oars and drifts helplessly.
The water thickly hid its danger, but he knew what was there. There were alligators, their knobby eyes even now watching him. He'd seen one with his binoculars from his bedroom the other day that was at least fourteen feet long. He felt it somewhere nearby now. And though this was no longer prairie, there were still a few snakes, cottonmouth, copperheads, pygmies under the leaf rot at the edge of the lake. There was the water itself, superheated until it hosted flagellates that enter the nose and infect the brain, an infinity of the minuscule eating away. There was the burning sun above and the mosquitoes feeding on his blood. There was the silence. He wouldn't swim in this terrifying mess.
Abandonment is a theme in this collection. Buildings, careers, friends, partners, parents, even children, are left behind. In the final story, "Yport", Florida itself is left behind as a woman flees summer there to research a novel about Guy de Maupassant. Normandy is a complete contrast to Florida. Even though her two children are with her, loneliness still haunts her. In the end she realizes, Solitude is danger for a working mind. We need to keep around us people who think and speak.
When we are lonely for a long time, we people the void with phantoms. Although she adds de Maupassant said this in "Le Horla", perhaps this is Groff's message. In Florida, the phantoms are all too real.
As for me, Florida remains just as unknowable.… (mer)
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