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Lauren Groff's critically acclaimed The Monsters of Templeton was shortlisted for the Orange Broadband Award for New Writers 2008, and critics hailed her as an enormous talent and a writer to watch. In Delicate Edible Birds, she fulfils that promise. Delicate Edible Birds includes nine stories of vastly different styles and structures. 'L. De Bard and Aliette' recreates the tale of Abelard and Heloise in New York during the 1918 flu epidemic; 'Lucky Chow Fun' returns to Templeton, the setting of Groff's debut novel, for a contemporary account of what happens to outsiders in a small, insular town; the title story of Delicate Edible Birds is a harrowing, powerfully moving drama about a group of war correspondents, a lone woman among them, who fall prey to a frightening man in the French countryside while fleeing the Nazis. With a dazzling array of voices and settings, Delicate Edible Birds will cement Lauren Groff's reputation as one of the foremost talents of her generation.
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Includes nine stories of different styles and structures. This title features such stories as 'L De Bard and Aliette' that recreates the tale of Abelard and Heloise in New York during the 1918 flu epidemic; and 'Lucky Chow Fun' that returns to Templeton for a contemporary account of what happens to outsiders in a small, insular town.
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""Delicate Edible Birds" is wonderfully imaginative, subtle and precise, brimming over with brave and fascinating women. . . . A dazzling collection to make all those readers who are wary of short stories think again." ""newbooks"""
"It takes only a few pages to see that Ms. Groff can write--really write."--New York Observer
"Delicate Edible Birds is wonderfully imaginative, subtle and precise, brimming over with brave and fascinating women. . . . A dazzling collection to make all those readers who are wary of short stories think again."--newbooks
"In her strongest writing, Groff echoes the magic of her gothic forebears."--Financial Times
"Groff's prose is lovely, and when she nails a story--like the title story about journalists fleeing Nazi-occupied Paris--the results are sublime."--Publishers Weekly
"It takes only a few pages to see that Ms. Groff can write--really write."--New York Observer
"Delicate Edible Birds is wonderfully imaginative, subtle and precise, brimming over with brave and fascinating women. . . . A dazzling collection to make all those readers who are wary of short stories think again."--newbooks
"In her strongest writing, Groff echoes the magic of her gothic forebears."--Financial Times
"Groff's prose is lovely, and when she nails a story--like the title story about journalists fleeing Nazi-occupied Paris--the results are sublime."--Publishers Weekly
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- PublisherWilliam Heinemann
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 043401964X
- ISBN 13 9780434019649
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages320
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