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Florida
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- ISBN: 9780698405141
- ISBN: 0698405145
- ISBN: 9781594634512
- ISBN: 1594634513
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Physical Description:
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1 online resource (275 pages) - Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2018.
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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| Genre: | Short stories. Short stories. Electronic books. Fiction. Short stories. |
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- Penguin Putnam
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDÂ
WINNER OF THE STORY PRIZE
ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
From the universally acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author of Fates and Furies, Matrix, and the highly-anticipated The Vaster Wilds
Florida is a "superlative" book (Boston Globe), "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)
In her thrilling new book, Lauren Groff brings the reader into a physical world that is at once domestic and wildâa 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 characterâa steely and conflicted wife and mother.Â
The stories in this collection span characters, towns, decades, even centuries, but Floridaâits landscape, climate, history, and state of mindâbecomes 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 furyâthe moments that make us alive. Startling, precise, and affecting, Florida is a magnificent achievement.
