Lauren Groff
Teoksen Fates and Furies tekijä
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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 näytä lisää 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) näytä vähemmän
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Tekijän teokset
The Midnight Zone 8 kappaletta
Delicate Edible Birds [short story] 4 kappaletta
Ghosts and Empties 2 kappaletta
Die weite Wildnis: Roman | New York Times Bestseller und Lieblingsbuch von Barack Obama 2023 | »Ein hinreißender… 2 kappaletta
The Wind [short story] 2 kappaletta
Groff, Lauren Archive 1 kappale
Dogs Go Wolf 1 kappale
What's the Time, Mr Wolf? 1 kappale
Blythe [short story] 1 kappale
Birdie 1 kappale
Fugue [short story] 1 kappale
Watershed [short story] 1 kappale
The Wife of the Dictator [short story] 1 kappale
Majorette [short story] 1 kappale
L. Debard and Aliette [short story] 1 kappale
Lucky Chow Fun [short story] 1 kappale
Groff Lauren 1 kappale
Sir Fleeting [short story] 1 kappale
La tierra más salvaje (Spanish Edition) 1 kappale
Associated Works
Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases (2020) — Avustaja — 183 kappaletta
McSweeney's Issue 49 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Cover Stories (2017) — Avustaja — 56 kappaletta
Astoria to Zion: Twenty-Six Stories of Risk and Abandon from Ecotone's First Decade (2014) — Avustaja — 13 kappaletta
The Second Shelf: A Quarterly of Rare Books & Words by Women (Issue 1, Autumn 2018) — Avustaja — 3 kappaletta
Merkitty avainsanalla
Yleistieto
- Syntymäaika
- 1978-07-23
- Sukupuoli
- female
- Kansalaisuus
- USA
- Syntymäpaikka
- Cooperstown, New York, USA
- Asuinpaikat
- Gainesville, Florida, USA
- Koulutus
- Amherst College
University of Wisconsin-Madison - Ammatit
- short story writer
novelist - Agentti
- Bill Clegg (Burnes & Clegg, Inc.)
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Kirja-arvosteluja
I expected to enjoy this book far more than I actually did. The hero, Marie de France, is someone known to have existed, but very little of her history is known. Which pretty much gave Lauren Groff carte blanche to write her story as she chose. In short, Marie, a bastard of noble birth is big and ungainly. Sent as a prioress to an impoverished and unimportant abbey, she successfully devotes her whole life to making it large, beautiful, and extraordinarily wealthy, Groff's research is impressive: she clearly understands the mediaeval religious life well. Her writing is striking, luminous. But I was entirely uninvested in the life of Marie de France and in the lives of her fellow-nuns. Dramas were quickly resolved: whole years, or even a decade or so passed in a single sentence. I didn't care for Marie a great deal - for her visions and her acquisitiveness - apparently for the glory of God. And really, it was matter of some indifference to me whether I finished the book: I did - for the quality of the prose, rather than the uninvolving narrative.… (lisätietoja)
Coming from just having finished The Monsters of Templeton, this was immensely enjoyable. The heartbreak, longing, vengeance, and rise of Mary were equal parts riveting and frustrating. The fantasy-esque elements of Groff's storytelling has been a pleasure to read, and the scenes in Matrix are worthy of some visual art representation.
I feel as thought I've been slightly cheated another kind of story. The monster is a great device, almost a distraction, and I wanted more about the monster.
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The writing style is a slog to get through. It feels very wishy washy and half the time I have no idea what is going on. I also find Marie annoying. Like, girl, success is the best revenge. Stop pining for some stuck up bitch and get on with your life.