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  • Published: 30 September 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448106394
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320

Delicate Edible Birds

And Other Stories




FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FATES AND FURIES AND MATRIX

'Echoes the magic of gothic forebears' FINANCIAL TIMES
'Groff is a writer of rare gifts' NEW YORK TIMES
'Lauren Groff is a virtuoso' Emily St John Mandel

Delicate Edible Birds is a short story collection from acclaimed writer Lauren Groff. Spanning from 1910s New York to Second World War France and contemporary America, these dazzlingly varied stories full of fervour and insight cement Groff as one of the foremost talents of her generation.

'One of the most original voices in literature today' ESQUIRE
'A literary star' i NEWSPAPER

  • Published: 30 September 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448106394
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320

About the author

Lauren Groff

Lauren Groff is the author of three New York Times bestselling novels – Fates and Furies (named by Barack Obama as his favourite book of 2015), The Monsters of Templeton and Arcadia – as well as the story collection Delicate Edible Birds. She graduated from Amherst College and has an MFA in fiction from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Groff’s fiction has won the Pushcart Prize and the PEN/O. Henry Award, among others, and has been shortlisted for the Orange Award for New Writers and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. In 2017, she was named one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists. Her stories have appeared in publications including The New Yorker, the Atlantic, One Story and Ploughshares, and in several of the annual The Best New American Stories anthologies. She lives in Gainesville, Florida, with her husband and two sons.

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Praise for Delicate Edible Birds

...begins with a story set in the sort of mythical small town of plenty that Krasikov's characters might dream of...Here Groff peers behind the white picket fence to reveal a nastier underside; other stories take in World War II, and transpose the tale of Heloise And Abelard to New York in 1918.

Metro

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.

New Books

Groff's first collection of stories, Delicate Edible Birds, demonstrates the often surprising ways that quality can bear fruit. Bringing together nine stories, it moves almost effortlessly through different locales, from Templeton to Argentina, post-first world war New York to contemporary America ... in her strongest writing, Groff echoes the magic of her gothic forebears

Financial Times