Florida

**A BARACK OBAMA BOOK OF THE YEAR****2018 National Book Awards Finalist**In these vigorous stories, Lauren Groff brings her electric storytelling to a world in which storms, snakes and sinkholes lurk at the edge of everyday life, but the greater threats are of a human, emotional and psychological nature. Among those navigating it all are a resourceful pair of abandoned sisters; a lonely boy, grown up; a restless, childless couple; a searching, homeless woman; and an unforgettable conflicted wife and mother. The stories in this collection span characters, towns, even centuries, but Florida - its landscape, climate, history and state of mind - becomes the gravitational centre. With shocking accuracy, Groff pinpoints the connections behind human pleasure and pain, hope and despair, love and fury - the moments that make us alive. 'Restorative fiction for these urgent times.' New York Times'A blistering collection ... lyrical and oblique.' Guardian

Product details

• Authors: Lauren Groff, Groff Lauren
• Publisher: Windmill Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 16.05.2019
• EAN: 9781786090461
• ISBN: 978-1-78609-046-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Florida, FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / World Literature / American / 21st Century, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary