Lauren Groff
Forfatter af Fates and Furies
Om forfatteren
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 vis mere 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) vis mindre
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Værker af Lauren Groff
The Midnight Zone 8 eksemplarer
Monsters of Templeton 4 eksemplarer
Die weite Wildnis: Roman | New York Times Bestseller | »Ein hinreißender Roman.« Die Zeit 4 eksemplarer
Delicate Edible Birds [short story] 4 eksemplarer
Ghosts and Empties 2 eksemplarer
The Wind [short story] 2 eksemplarer
Dogs Go Wolf 1 eksemplar
What's the Time, Mr Wolf? 1 eksemplar
Blythe [short story] 1 eksemplar
Birdie 1 eksemplar
Fugue [short story] 1 eksemplar
Watershed [short story] 1 eksemplar
The Wife of the Dictator [short story] 1 eksemplar
Majorette [short story] 1 eksemplar
L. Debard and Aliette [short story] 1 eksemplar
Lucky Chow Fun [short story] 1 eksemplar
American Short Fiction Volume 18 Issue 60 1 eksemplar
Groff Lauren 1 eksemplar
Sir Fleeting [short story] 1 eksemplar
Groff, Lauren Archive 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases (2020) — Bidragyder — 166 eksemplarer
McSweeney's Issue 49 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Cover Stories (2017) — Bidragyder — 53 eksemplarer
Astoria to Zion: Twenty-Six Stories of Risk and Abandon from Ecotone's First Decade (2014) — Bidragyder — 13 eksemplarer
The Second Shelf: A Quarterly of Rare Books & Words by Women (Issue 1, Autumn 2018) — Bidragyder — 3 eksemplarer
Satte nøgleord på
Almen Viden
- Fødselsdato
- 1978-07-23
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Cooperstown, New York, USA
- Bopæl
- Gainesville, Florida, USA
- Uddannelse
- Amherst College
University of Wisconsin-Madison - Erhverv
- short story writer
novelist - Agent
- Bill Clegg (Burnes & Clegg, Inc.)
Medlemmer
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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.
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Statistikker
- Værker
- 31
- Also by
- 19
- Medlemmer
- 11,239
- Popularitet
- #2,097
- Vurdering
- 3.7
- Anmeldelser
- 658
- ISBN
- 195
- Sprog
- 19
- Udvalgt
- 21
She makes her way over rough terrain eating anything she can find, from mushrooms and berries to live insects to fish from the river. She creates overnight shelter using two coverlets brought with her from the settlement. Only rarely does she spy other humans, usually natives, and fear drives her on. As the days pass the girl’s back story is slowly revealed: her life in England, the circumstances surrounding her journey to Virginia, and the events in the settlement that led to her dramatic and dangerous decision.
On the surface the girl’s story is one of survival in the wilderness, but with sublime prose Lauren Groff adds layers of social commentary, about the native peoples’ respect for the land, the impact of colonialism, and women’s lack of agency and options. The result is a beautifully written and thought-provoking novel.… (mere)