EAN: 9781594634529

GROFF LAUREN FLORIDA

The universally-acclaimed return of the New York Times bestselling author of Fates and Furies.
In Lauren Groff's Florida  the hot sun shines  but a wild darkness lurks. Florida is a
"superlative" book (Boston Globe)  "gorgeously weird and limber" (New Yorker)  "frequently
funny" (San Francisco Chronicle)  "brooding  inventive and often moving" (NPR Fresh Air) -- as
Groff is recognized as "Florida's unofficial poet laureate  as Joan Didion was for California."
(Washington Post)   "Groff's gifts as a writer just keep soaring higher and higher." - NPR's
Fresh Air  In her thrilling new book  Lauren Groff brings the reader into a physical world that
is at once domestic and wild-a place where the hazards of the natural world lie waiting to
pounce  yet the greatest threats and mysteries are still of an emotional  psychological nature.
A family retreat can be derailed by a prowling panther  or by a sexual secret. Among those
navigating this place 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 its gravitational center: an energy  a mood  as much as a place of
residence. Groff transports the reader  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.

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