Florida

Lauren Groff's Florida is a collection of stories that explore the connections behind human pleasure and pain, hope and despair, love and fury. It is a masterpiece that is both innovative and terrifyingly relevant, with each story a bracing read. The writing is lushly evocative and mesmerising, and Groff's turn of phrase can stop you on your tracks.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 16 May 2019
Publisher: Cornerstone

Lauren Groff is a virtuoso storyteller, as evidenced by her latest collection of short stories, Florida. Emily St John Mandel's A blistering collection is a lyrical and oblique exploration of the human condition, offering a deep and dark and resonant look at the complexities of life. Ann Patchett's It's beautiful is a haunting and evocative masterpiece that gives readers rich, grand nightmares. In these vigorous stories, 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. Florida is an exploration of the connections behind human pleasure and pain, hope and despair, love and fury. Innovative and terrifyingly relevant, any one of these stories is a bracing read, but together they form a masterpiece.

Weight: 202g
Dimension: 197 x 128 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781786090461