Lily Tuck, Author . HarperCollins $23.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-06-620942-5
Tuck (Siam; The Woman Who Walked on Water) efficiently and eloquently chronicles the lives of women who undergo both geographical and emotional displacement in these 14 short stories. The characters end up in Peru, France, Italy, Southeast Asia and...
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Lily Tuck, Author . HarperCollins $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-620944-9
Beautiful Ella Lynch left her native Ireland at 10 and married a French officer at 15; by 19, she is divorced, living with a Russian count and struggling to pay her embittered maid. Thus she's in prime shape to appreciate the quick and ardent...
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Lily Tuck, Author . HarperCollins $25.95 (263p) ISBN 978-0-06-147256-5
A National Book Award–winning novelist applies her skills to nonfiction
Woman of Rome: A Life of Elsa Morante
Lily Tuck
. HarperCollins
, $25.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-147256-5
Novelist Elsa Morante and the city she symbolized come alive in...
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Lily Tuck, Author Overlook Press $23.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-87951-723-6
Probing the futility of good intentions and the pitfalls of cultural miscommunication, this assured and absorbing third novel by Tuck (The Woman Who Walked on Water) opens on March 9, 1967, the day the U.S. starts bombing North Vietnam from bases in
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Lily Tuck, Author Riverhead Books $21 (241p) ISBN 978-1-57322-021-7
Again Tuck (Interviewing Matisse: or The Woman Who Died Standing Up) has taken stylistic risks and emerged triumphant. Her stark prose and allegory-inside-allegory narrative tug the reader, like an ancient Eastern conundrum, toward a ``realization...
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Lily Tuck. Atlantic Monthly, $24 (208p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1991-9
A breathlessly mannered, affecting new work by National Book Award–winner Tuck (The News from Paraguay) tracks a Boston wife's random, reflective chain of thoughts as she sits at her dead husband's bedside. Philip, a senior mathematician at an MIT-so
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Lily Tuck. Atlantic Monthly, $23 (224p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2016-8
The 10 stories in the latest collection from National Book Award–winner Tuck (for her novel The News from Paraguay) are compact, intense, and finely crafted. Tuck opens private windows into the lives of women in foreign lands, often on their own...
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Lily Tuck. Atlantic Monthly, $26 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2402-9
National Book Award winner Tuck (The News from Paraguay) blends history, biography, memoir, and fiction in this gleefully chaotic metanarrative, which closely parallels the author’s own life. Tracking the emotional and intellectual development of...
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Lily Tuck, read by Barbara Caruso. HighBridge Audio, unabridged, five CDs, 5.5 hrs., $26.95 ISBN 978-1-61174-619-8
In this audio edition of Tuck’s latest novel, when artist and homemaker Nina discovers the dead body of her mathematician husband, Philip, she ruminates over the peaks and valleys of their marriage, as household objects—e.g., a well-worn jacket, the
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Lily Tuck, Author, Gordon Lish, Editor Alfred A. Knopf $18 (148p) ISBN 978-0-394-58935-0
Molly, a garrulous Southerner transplanted to Connecticut, phones Lily in New York to report the bizarre death of their mutual friend, Inez, whose corpse had been found standing in her room, wearing only lingerie and boots. So begins a midnight-to-da
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Lily Tuck. Atlantic Monthly, $20 (176p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2711-2
With her signature clipped and measured prose, National Book Award winner Tuck’s new novel is elegant, raw, and powerful. As does I Married You for Happiness, this novel also largely takes place inside the mind and memory of a narrator. Fixated on...
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Lily Tuck. Atlantic Monthly, $23 (224p) ISBN 978-0-8021-4759-2
National Book Award–winner Tuck (The News from Paraguay) probes the gulf between expectations and reality as well as between outward appearances and internal disquiet in this collection of four short stories and a novella. The title novella is set...
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Lily Tuck. Liveright, $24.99 (144p) ISBN 978-1-324-09572-9
Tuck (Sisters) draws on the true story of a Polish Catholic girl who died in Auschwitz in her unflinching latest. The reader first meets Czeslawa Kwoka shortly before the German invasion in 1939. She lives on a rustic farm with her hardworking, “tire
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Lily Tuck, read by Gabra Zackman. HighBridge Audio, , unabridged, 2 CDs, 1.5 hrs., $19.99 ISBN 978-1-6816-8716-2
This novella-length story largely takes place inside the mind and memory of a unnamed, insecure narrator who constantly compares herself to her husband’s ex-wife. No characters are named—it’s just “my husband,” “his son,” “his daughter,” and “she”...
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