| Publisher: | Voice |
| Genres: | Short Stories, Fiction Books, Literary Studies: Fiction |
| Authors: | Lauren Groff |
| Pages: | 320 pages |
| ISBN10: | 1401340865 |
| ISBN13: | 9781401340865 |
| Tags: | Short Stories, Fiction Books, Literary Studies: Fiction, Free Download, PDF Download |
| Language: | en |
| Physical Form: | eBook |
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From Lauren Groff, author of the critically acclaimed and bestselling novel The Monsters of Templeton, comes Delicate Edible Birds, one of the most striking short fiction debuts in recent years.
In "Sir Fleeting," a Midwestern farm girl on her honeymoon in Argentina falls into lifelong lust for a French playboy. In "Blythe," an attorney who has become a stay-at-home mother takes a night class in poetry and meets another full-time mother, one whose charismatic brilliance changes everything. In "The Wife of the Dictator," that eponymous wife ("brought back . . . from [the dictator's] last visit to America") grows more desperately, menacingly isolated every day. In "Delicate Edible Birds," a group of war correspondents--a lone, high-spirited woman among them--falls sudden prey to a brutal farmer while fleeing Nazis in the French countryside. In "Lucky Chow Fun," Groff returns us to Templeton, the setting of her first book, for revelations about the darkness within even that idyllic small town.
