Lauren Groff

From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Monsters of Templeton and Arcadia, an exhilarating novel about marriage, creativity, art, and perception.Fates and Furies is a literary masterpiece that defies expectation. A dazzling examination of a marriage, it is also a portrait of creative partnership written by one of the best writers of her generation.Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. And sometimes, it turns out, the key to a great marriage is not its truths but its secrets. At the core of this rich, expansive, layered novel, Lauren Groff presents the story of one such marriage over the course of twenty-four years.

Willie trató la historia de su familia acerca de los motivos para venir a sus propios demonios para distribuir. Oscuros secretos salen a la luz, el pasado y el presente borroso y una sorprendente ver

Au XVIIe siècle, une jeune fille tente de survivre dans la forêt après avoir fui la servitude et les brimades. De nombreuses épreuves l'attendent.

Traduit de langlais (États-Unis) par Carine Chichereau." Le mariage est un tissu de mensonges. Gentils, pour la plupart. Domissions. Si tu devais exprimer ce que tu penses au quotidien de ton conjoint, tu reduirais tout en miettes. Elle na jamais menti. Elle sest contentee de ne pas en parler. " Ils se rencontrent a luniversite. Ils se marient tres vite. Nous sommes en 1991. A vingt-deux ans, Lotto et Mathilde sont beaux, seduisants, follement amoureux, et semblent promis a un avenir radieux. Dix ans plus tard, Lotto est devenu un dramaturge au succes planetaire, et Mathilde, dans lombre, la toujours soutenu. Le couple quils forment est limage-type dun partenariat reussi.Mais les histoires damour parfaites cachent souvent des secrets quil vaudrait mieux taire. Au terme de ce roman, la veritable raison detre de ce couple sans accrocs reserve bien des surprises.

Un roman moderne, féministe, puissant, qui redonne vie à une héroïne méconnue de l’Histoire : Marie de France. « Elle sort de la forêt seule sur son cheval. Âgée de dix-sept ans, dans la froide brui

FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FATES AND FURIESIn the fields of western New York State in the 1970s, on the grounds of a decaying mansion called Arcadia House, a few dozen idealists se

Traduit de langlais (États-Unis) par Carine Chichereau." Le mariage est un tissu de mensonges. Gentils, pour la plupart. Domissions. Si tu devais exprimer ce que tu penses au quotidien de ton conjoint, tu reduirais tout en miettes. Elle na jamais menti. Elle sest contentee de ne pas en parler. " Ils se rencontrent a luniversite. Ils se marient tres vite. Nous sommes en 1991. A vingt-deux ans, Lotto et Mathilde sont beaux, seduisants, follement amoureux, et semblent promis a un avenir radieux. Dix ans plus tard, Lotto est devenu un dramaturge au succes planetaire, et Mathilde, dans lombre, la toujours soutenu. Le couple quils forment est limage-type dun partenariat reussi.Mais les histoires damour parfaites cachent souvent des secrets quil vaudrait mieux taire. Au terme de ce roman, la veritable raison detre de ce couple sans accrocs reserve bien des surprises.

Tout nest pas si facile dans l" État ensoleillé " quest la Floride. Derrière les images de carte postale se cachent des situations souvent ambigües comme lattestent les nouvelles de ce recueil. On y

Una joven universitaria emprende una búsqueda para averiguar quién es su padre. Esta sencilla pero seductora propuesta es la base del brillante debut de la joven norteamericana Lauren Groff, elogiada con entusiasmo por autores tan dispares como Lorrie Moore y Stephen King. Finalista del premio Orange para escritores noveles, la novela entro en la lista de libros mas vendidos del New York Times.Confundida y agotada tras una desastrosa relacion sentimental, Willie Upton abandona sus estudios de arqueologia y cruza el pais para regresar, en busca de sosiego, a su lugar de origen, el idilico pueblo de Templeton, en el estado de Nueva York. Sin embargo, aldia siguiente de su llegada, la aparicion del cadaver de un monstruo de quince metros en aguas del lago quiebra la tranquilidad dellugar. Por si eso fuera poco, Willie descubre que su madre, ex hippy y madre soltera, le mintio sobre la identidad de su padre, y lo maximo que ahora esta dispuesta a admitir es que se trata de un hombre de Templeton. Asi pues, cuando Willie comience a indagar enla historia y la mitologia del pueblo saldran a la luz otros tantos secretos de su arbol genealogico, y se establecera una serie deinesperadas y reveladoras conexiones entre el pasado y el presente.Inspirandose en la fascinante saga familiar de los fundadores laciudad de Cooperstown - entre quienes se halla el famoso escritor James Fenimore Cooper -, Lauren Groff narra una absorbente historia a traves de la mirada apasionada, inteligente y poetica de una joven que conquista la simpatia del lector desde la primera pagina.Los monstruos de Templeton posee todo lo que un lector debe esperar de una autora tan brillante, e incluso mas [...] En sus paginas hay monstruos, asesinos, hijos ilegitimos y un sinnumero de chismosos y embusteros. Una intensa y maravillosa novela. Stephen King

Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. And sometimes, it turns out, the key to a great marriage is not its truths but its secrets. At the core of this rich, expansive, layered novel, Lauren Groff presents the story of one such marriage over the course of twenty-four years. At age twenty-two, Lotto and Mathilde are tall, glamorous, madly in love, and destined for greatness. A decade later, their marriage is still the envy of their friends, but with an electric thrill we understand that things are even more complicated and remarkable than they have seemed. With stunning revelations and multiple threads, and in prose that is vibrantly alive and original, Groff delivers a deeply satisfying novel about love, art, creativity, and power that is unlike anything that has come before it. Profound, surprising, propulsive, and emotionally riveting, it stirs both the mind and the heart.

Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. And sometimes, it turns out, the key to a great marriage is not its truths but its secrets. At the core of this rich, expansive, layered novel, Lauren Groff presents the story of one such marriage over the course of twenty-four years.At age twenty-two, Lotto and Mathilde are tall, glamorous, madly in love and destined for greatness. A decade later, their marriage is still the envy of their friends, but with an electric thrill we understand that things are even more complicated and remarkable than they have seemed. With stunning revelations and multiple threads, and in prose that is vibrantly alive and original, Groff delivers a deeply satisfying novel about love, art, creativity and power that is unlike anything that has come before it. Profound, surprising, propulsive and emotionally riveting, it stirs both the mind and the heart.

Florida is a magnificent collection, executed with tremendous depth and precision, unsettling in the best possible way. Lauren Groff is a virtuoso. Emily St John Mandel, author of Station ElevenIn her vigorous and moving new book, Lauren Groff brings her electric storytelling and intelligence to a world in which storms, snakes and sinkholes lurk at the edge of everyday life, but the greater threats and mysteries 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, 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 centre: 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. Startling, precise and affecting, Florida is a magnificent achievement.

Meet the indomitable Marie de France.Born from a long line of female warriors and crusaders, yet too coarse, too wild, too rough-hewn for courtly life, Marie de France is cast from the royal court. Woefully, she is sent to the muddy fields of Angleterre to take up her new duty as the prioress of an impoverished abbey.The abbey is a dreadful place: its inhabitants are on the brink of starvation, beset by disease, stoic and stern, yet plagued with an unholy tendency to gossip. Marie cannot help but pine for the decadence and comfort of France; her secret lover Cecily, her queen Eleanor, and the very court that had spited her.Yet Marie soon realises that, though she may be tied to a life of duty, she wields more power than she could have imagined. With the fearlessness that has always set her apart, she inspires her new sisterhood to awaken their spirits and finally claim what is theirs.A dazzling work of literature, Matrix gathers currents of violence, sensuality and ecstasy in a mesmerising portrait of consuming passion and womanhood.

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.'

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"The day I returned to Templeton steeped in disgrace, the fifty-foot corpse of a monster surfaced in Lake Glimmerglass." So begins The Monsters of Templeton, a novel spanning two centuries: part a contemporary story of a girls search for her father, part historical novel, and part ghost story. In the wake of a disastrous love affair with her older, married archaeology professor at Stanford, brilliant Wilhelmina Cooper arrives back at the doorstep of her hippie mother-turned-born-again-Christians house in Templeton, NY, a storybook town her ancestors founded that sits on the shores of Lake Glimmerglass. Upon her arrival, a prehistoric monster surfaces in the lake bringing a feeding frenzy to the quiet town, and Willie learns she has a mystery father her mother kept secret Willies entire life. The beautiful, broody Willie is told that the key to her biological fathers identity lies somewhere in her familys history, so she buries herself in the research of her twisted family tree and finds more than she bargained for as a chorus of voices from the towns past -- some sinister, all fascinating -- rise up around her to tell their side of the story. In the end, dark secrets come to light, past and present day are blurred, and old mysteries are finally put to rest. The Monsters of Templeton is a fresh, virtuoso performance that has placed Lauren Groff among the best writers of today.

« Elle sort de la forêt seule sur son cheval. Âgée de dix-sept ans, dans la froide bruine de mars, Marie, qui vient de France. »Que disent les livres d’histoire sur Marie de France ? Qu’elle est la p

« Elle sort de la forêt seule sur son cheval. Âgée de dix-sept ans, dans la froide bruine de mars, Marie, qui vient de France. »Que disent les livres d’histoire sur Marie de France ? Qu’elle est la p

Maria de França, indomable i rebel, és expulsada de la cort dElionor dAquitània amb tot just disset anys i enviada a Anglaterra per fer-se càrrec duna abadia empobrida, devastada per la gana i assetj