Lily King, Author . Atlantic Monthly $24 (242p) ISBN 978-0-87113-897-2
A marriage of single parents is more often the stuff of sitcoms than of serious novels, but King (The Pleasing Hour
) uses it to great effect in this intense character study. Single mother Vida Avery teaches English at an exclusive northeastern...
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Lily King, Grove/Atlantic, $24 (368p) ISBN 9780-8021-1949-0
Whiting Award–winner King (The English Teacher) captures with easy strokes the bold and dangerous personalities lurking inside the mundane frame of domestic drama. Her third novel, narrated by the clear-eyed daughter of an alcoholic father, follows...
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Lily King, Author Atlantic Monthly Press $24 (237p) ISBN 978-0-87113-754-8
A year in France brings a young American new reserves of sympathy and maturity in this poised, accomplished first novel. Nineteen-year-old Rosie, King's sensitive narrator, arrives in Paris on the first day of the school year, set for her job as the
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Lily King. Atlantic Monthly, $25 (272p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2255-1
The love lives and expeditions of controversial anthropologists Margaret Mead, Reo Fortune, and Gregory Bateson are fictionalized and richly reimagined in New England Book Award winner King’s (Father of the Rain) meaty and entrancing fourth book....
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Lily King. Grove, $27 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8021-4853-7
King’s, elegant, droll follow-up to Euphoria traces an aspiring novelist’s effort to find herself after turning 30 and losing her mother. After a series of lovers and moves, Casey Peabody ends up alone in Boston, Mass., with nothing to hold onto....
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