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Delicate Edible Birds: And Other Stories
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From Lauren Groff, Author Of The Critically Acclaimed And Bestselling Novel Fates And Furies, Comes Delicate Edible Birds, One Of The Most Striking Short Fiction Debuts In Years. Here Are Nine Stories Of Astonishing Insight And Variety, Each Revealing A Resonant Drama Within The Life Of A Twentiethcentury American Woman.In Sir Fleeting, A Midwestern Farm Girl On Her Honeymoon In Argentina Falls Into Lifelong Lust For A French Playboy. In Blythe, An Attorney Who Has Become A Stayathome Mother Takes A Night Class In Poetry And Meets Another Fulltime Mother, One Whose Charismatic Brilliance Changes Everything. In The Wife Of The Dictator, That Eponymous Wife (Brought Back . . . From [The Dictator'S] Last Visit To America) Grows More Desperately, Menacingly Isolated Every Day. In Delicate Edible Birds, A Group Of War Correspondentsa Lone, Highspirited Woman Among Themfalls Sudden Prey To A Brutal Farmer While Fleeing Nazis In The French Countryside. In Lucky Chow Fun, Groff Returns Us To Templeton, The Setting Of Her First Book, For Revelations About The Darkness Within Even That Idyllic Small Town.In Some Of These Stories, Enormous Changes Happen In An Instant. In Others, Transformations Occur Across A Lifetimeor Several Lifetimes.Throughout The Collection, Groff Displays Particular And Vivid Preoccupations. Crime Is A Motifsex Crimes, A Possible Murder, Crimes Of The Heart. Love Troubles Recur; They'Re In Every Storylove In Alcoholism, In Adultery, In A Flood, Even In The Great Flu Epidemic Of 1918. Some Of The Love Has Depths, Which Are Understood Too Late; Some Of The Love Is Shallow, And Also Understood Too Late. And Mastery Is A Themegroff'S Women Swim And Baton Twirl, Become Poets, Or Try And Try Again To Achieve The Inner Strength To Exercise Personal Freedom.Overall, These Stories Announce A Notable New Literary Master. Dazzlingly Original And Confident, Delicate Edible Birds Further Solidifies Groff'S Reputation As One Of The Foremost Talents Of Her Generation.
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