TY  - BOOK
AU  - Groff,Lauren
TI  - Florida
SN  - 9781785151897
U1  - 823.914 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - London
PB  - William Heinemann
KW  - Short stories, American
KW  - Interpersonal relations
KW  - Fiction
KW  - City and town life
KW  - Florida
KW  - Short stories
KW  - lcgft
KW  - gsafd
N1  - Ghosts and empties --; At the round earth's imagined corners --; Dogs go wolf --; Midnight zone --; Eyewall --; For the god of love, for the love of god --; Salvador --; Flower hunters --; Above and below --; Snake stories --; Yport
N2  - In 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
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