Format:
Book
Author:
Groff, Lauren, author.
Title:
Florida / Lauren Groff.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Riverhead Books, 2018.
Description:
275 pages ; 22 cm
Summary:
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.
Subjects:
Short stories, American.
Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
City and town life -- Fiction.
Florida -- Fiction.
Genre:
Short stories.
Short stories.
Other Author:
Groff, Lauren. Ghosts and empties.
Groff, Lauren. At the round earth's imagined corners.
Groff, Lauren. Dogs go wolf.
Groff, Lauren. Midnight zone.
Groff, Lauren. Eyewall.
Groff, Lauren. For the god of love, for the love of god.
Groff, Lauren. Salvador.
Groff, Lauren. Flower hunters.
Groff, Lauren. Above and below.
Groff, Lauren. Snake stories.
Other Title:
Short stories. Selections
Contents:
Ghosts and empties -- At the round earth's imagined corners -- Dogs go wolf -- The midnight zone -- Eyewall -- For the god of love, for the love of god -- Salvador -- Flower hunters -- Above and below -- Snake stories -- Yport.
LCCN:
2017042916
ISBN:
9781594634512
1594634513
* 9780698405141
Other Number:
1003273325
System Availability:
1
Current Holds:
0
# Local items:
1
Control Number:
108013
Call Number:
F Gro
Course Reserves:
0
# Local items in:
1
# System items in:
1