A mesmerizing tour de force that marks the debut of one of the most exciting talents in years
Lauren Groff is a three-time National Book Award finalist and the New York Times bestselling author of four novels, The Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia, Fates and Furies and Matrix, and two short story collections, Delicate Edible Birds and Florida. She has won The Story Prize and been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her work regularly appears in the New Yorker, the Atlantic and elsewhere, and she was named one of Granta's 2017 Best Young American Novelists.
Lauren Groff's debut novel, The Monsters of Templeton, is
everything a reader might have expected from this gifted writer,
and more ... There are monsters, murders, bastards, and
ne'er-do-wells almost without number. I was sorry to see this rich
and wonderful novel come to an end, and there is no higher success
than that.
*Stephen King*
THE MONSTERS OF TEMPLETON is a bold and beautiful hybrid of a
book...Lauren Groff is an exciting young novelist, gifted with an
elegant prose style and a narrative ambition as deep and as serious
as the human mysteries she sets out to explore.
*Lorrie Moore*
Groff's delightful debut is a glorious hybrid of history and
humour, with just a sprinkling of magic.
*Easy Living*
This cracking tale, admirer Stephen King gleefully says, is full of
"monsters, murders, bastards and ne'er do-wells". Yet Lauren
Groff's remarkable debut is not a horror at all...as Willie slays
her demons by slowly but surely excavating her family tree, the
novel blossoms into a crossbreed of intimate confession, eccentric
social history, origin myth and literary biography... the true
'monsters' of Templeton are its secrets.
*Metro*
This has an opening to die for ... a riveting read
*Scotland on Sunday*
Twenty-eight-year-old Willie Upton has just detonated a promising academic career by her scandalous affair with a married professor. Now pregnant, she slinks home to Templeton, NY, just as an enormous dead monster is pulled from nearby Lake Glimmerglass. There, Willie's mother, a former hippie, admits she has always lied about Willie's paternity and discloses this one clue about her biological father's actual identity: he is a descendant of Judge Marmaduke Temple and currently a prominent member of Templeton. Sound familiar? Pay attention: James Fenimore Cooper is from Cooperstown, NY (as is Groff) and used it as the model for Templeton, NY, setting of The Pioneers. Yes, Groff has daringly used Cooper's Templeton and its inhabitants as the launching pad for Willie's search for her father. Willie takes her mother's clue and pulls on it, following endless strands to get her answer, all the while tormented with indecision about her own pregnancy. Liberally peppered with old photographs, diary entries, letters, and a family tree constantly in need of revision as Willie eliminates one possibility after another spanning more than two centuries of shocking Templeton history, this is an irresistible adventure. Highly recommended.--Beth E. Andersen, Ann Arbor Dist. Lib., MI Copyright 2008 Reed Business Information.
Lauren Groff's debut novel, The Monsters of Templeton, is
everything a reader might have expected from this gifted writer,
and more ... There are monsters, murders, bastards, and
ne'er-do-wells almost without number. I was sorry to see this rich
and wonderful novel come to an end, and there is no higher success
than that. * Stephen King *
THE MONSTERS OF TEMPLETON is a bold and beautiful hybrid of a
book...Lauren Groff is an exciting young novelist, gifted with an
elegant prose style and a narrative ambition as deep and as serious
as the human mysteries she sets out to explore. * Lorrie Moore
*
Groff's delightful debut is a glorious hybrid of history and
humour, with just a sprinkling of magic. * Easy Living *
This cracking tale, admirer Stephen King gleefully says, is full of
"monsters, murders, bastards and ne'er do-wells". Yet Lauren
Groff's remarkable debut is not a horror at all...as Willie slays
her demons by slowly but surely excavating her family tree, the
novel blossoms into a crossbreed of intimate confession, eccentric
social history, origin myth and literary biography... the true
'monsters' of Templeton are its secrets. * Metro *
This has an opening to die for ... a riveting read * Scotland on
Sunday *
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