Lily Tuck

• Mar-1996
• / General Fiction
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The Woman Who Walked on Water is a beautifully crafted, dark fable, the story of a woman's search for meaning, from the author of The Double Life of Liliane.

Adele leaves her comfortable life in Connecticut for India, to follow a guru she has...

• Dec-1999
• / Literary
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Claire, the young bride of a government contractor, arrives in Bangkok with her husband on March 9, 1967, the day U.S. planes begin bombing runs on North Vietnam. At a dinner party, she meets and befriends Jim Thompson, the real-life American entrepr...

• Dec-2001
• / General Fiction
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In an elegant and penetrating first short-story collection, Limbo, and Other Places I Have Lived, Lily Tuck's characters travel to unknown, exotic places and, while there, find themselves deeply immersed in observation -- of the natives, the local cu...

• Dec-2004
• / General Fiction
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“Brimming with rich descriptions of a beautiful country….The News From Paraguay evolves from a quirky, elegant tale of an unconventional love affair into a sweeping epic.” --  Fort Worth Star-TelegramLily Tuck’s impressive novel offers ...

• Apr-2006
• / General Fiction
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Lily, Molly, and Inez are women of a certain age, of a certain bearing, of a certain class. Late one dire night, Molly telephones from Connecticut to catch Lily up with the news: Inez's corpse -- near-naked but wearing boots -- has been discovered pr...

• Sep-2011
• / Literary
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Slender, potent, and utterly engaging, I Married You For Happiness combines marriage, mathematics, and the probability of an afterlife to create Lily Tuck's most affecting and riveting book yet. "His hand is growing cold, still she holds it" is ho...

• Apr-2013
• / General Fiction
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Lily Tuck's The House at Belle Fontaine brings together ten of the award-winning author's most exquisitely-wrought and captivating stories. These intimate tales traverse time and continents, revealing apprehensions, passions, secrets, and tragedies a...

• Sep-2015
• / General Fiction
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Lily Tuck has had a wonderful and accomplished career as a National Book Award winning novelist, story writer, essayist and biographer. She is one of our most distinguished contributors to American literature. With "The Double Life of Liliane," Tuck ...

• Sep-2017
• / Literary
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Lily Tuck’s critically-lauded, bestselling I MARRIED YOU FOR HAPPINESS was hailed by the Boston Globe as “an artfully crafted still life of one couple’s marriage.” In her singular new novel SISTERS, Tuck gives a very different portrait of mar...

• Feb-2020
• / Literary
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The National Book Award winner explores the hidden dynamics of relationships with “lean, intriguing, formally inventive prose” in this collection (Kirkus Reviews).A New York Times Editor’s ChoiceIn Heathcliff Redux, the novella that begins this...

• Dec-2024
• / Historical
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The heartbreaking story of a young Catholic girl transported to Auschwitz becomes a Rashomon-like rondo by one of our greatest novelists.Esquire • Best Books of Fall 2024 "The Rest Is Memory is a literary resurrection, as shattering as it is astoni...