Lily Tuck
Autore di The News from Paraguay
Sull'Autore
Lily Tuck is the author of four novels, including the National Book Award winner The News from Paraguay, and Siam, a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist, and a collection of stories. She divides her time between New York City and Maine.
Opere di Lily Tuck
Opere correlate
Mentors, Muses & Monsters: 30 Writers on the People Who Changed Their Lives (2009) — Collaboratore — 67 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Tuck, Lily
- Data di nascita
- 1938-10-10
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
France (birth) - Luogo di nascita
- Paris, France
- Luogo di residenza
- Peru
Bangkok, Thailand
New York, New York, USA
Maine, USA - Attività lavorative
- novelist
short story writer
biographer
editor - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- Agente
- Georges Borchardt, Inc.
- Breve biografia
- Lily Tuck was born in Paris, France, to an American family. During her childhood, she also lived in Uruguay and Peru, and in Thailand as an adult. She has said. "Living in other countries has given me a different perspective as a writer. It has heightened my sense of dislocation and rootlessness...I think this feeling is reflected in my characters, most of them women whose lives are changed by either a physical displacement or a loss of some kind." Her novel The News from Paraguay won the 2004 National Book Award for Fiction.
She has published six other novels, three collections of short stories, and A Woman of Rome, a biography of Italian novelist Elsa Morante (2002). She has also edited numerous anthologies. Her short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Fiction, and the Antioch Review. She now divides her time between New York City and Islesboro, Maine.
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I married you for happiness di Lily Tuck
Exquisitely written story of a mostly loving marriage through vignettes as the wife looks back on their years together while at her husband's deathbed - from National Book Award Winner Lily Tuck[b:The News from Paraguay|77691|The News from Paraguay|Lily Tuck|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1348259939s/77691.jpg|1325348] He is a mathematician and the book is peppered with his explanations of probability, time, numbers, Einstein. Nina is an artist and their contrasting disciplines enliven the marriage (and the story)in this quiet dream of a novel.… (altro)
Enjoyable but probably forgettable quicker read. Plot is nothing original of course: woman's spouse dies after a long marriage and she reminisces about their past together. You've seen this in memoir and fictional forms plenty.
Tuck has not made the wife character here very compelling or sympathetic, aside from being deeply shaken by finding her husband passed away. She's a painter, though she has only ever sold a few paintings to friends. She was raped by her husband's cousin, but never says anything about it. She has had an affair for unclear reasons but that may have had to do with resentment over her husband's professional success. He's the far more interesting character. A mathematics professor, Tuck works in references and explanations of some mathematical and philosophical topics into the book which for me were something approaching its saving grace.… (altro)
Tuck has not made the wife character here very compelling or sympathetic, aside from being deeply shaken by finding her husband passed away. She's a painter, though she has only ever sold a few paintings to friends. She was raped by her husband's cousin, but never says anything about it. She has had an affair for unclear reasons but that may have had to do with resentment over her husband's professional success. He's the far more interesting character. A mathematics professor, Tuck works in references and explanations of some mathematical and philosophical topics into the book which for me were something approaching its saving grace.… (altro)
It barely took me an hour to read "Sisters", Lily Tuck's latest novel (novella? short story?). Written in brief paragraphs, smoothly flowing in an almost stream-of-consciousness style, it makes for an entertaining and deceptively easy read. In reality, in this book there is so much that is subtly suggested and cunningly implied, that it packs in its few pages the effect of a novel thrice its length.
The unnamed narrator's marriage is haunted by the presence of her new husband's first wife - ominously referred to throughout as she - whom he divorced to marry the narrator. After some initial awkwardness, the narrator manages to maintain a decent relationship with her husband's son and daughter and, to a lesser extent, also with she/her. But we soon learn that beneath the genteel veneer, there is a lurking obsession, an all-consuming jealousy.
The bare bones of the plot will inevitably draw comparisons with Du Maurier's [b:Rebecca|17899948|Rebecca|Daphne du Maurier|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1386605169s/17899948.jpg|46663], as both the author and her erudite narrator are very much aware. Indeed, there are knowing references to Du Maurier's novel which are quickly turned on their head ("I dreamed - not that I went back to Manderley - that I was in a big city..."). Similarly, that novel's dark, Gothic atmosphere is here replaced by a different sort of darkness - the darkness of black humour and biting satire, as we witness the making and unmaking of a contemporary marriage. Brilliant, witty stuff; sparkling like the champagne which propels the book to its denouement.
An electronic version of this novel was provided through NetGalley in return for an honest review.… (altro)
The unnamed narrator's marriage is haunted by the presence of her new husband's first wife - ominously referred to throughout as she - whom he divorced to marry the narrator. After some initial awkwardness, the narrator manages to maintain a decent relationship with her husband's son and daughter and, to a lesser extent, also with she/her. But we soon learn that beneath the genteel veneer, there is a lurking obsession, an all-consuming jealousy.
The bare bones of the plot will inevitably draw comparisons with Du Maurier's [b:Rebecca|17899948|Rebecca|Daphne du Maurier|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1386605169s/17899948.jpg|46663], as both the author and her erudite narrator are very much aware. Indeed, there are knowing references to Du Maurier's novel which are quickly turned on their head ("I dreamed - not that I went back to Manderley - that I was in a big city..."). Similarly, that novel's dark, Gothic atmosphere is here replaced by a different sort of darkness - the darkness of black humour and biting satire, as we witness the making and unmaking of a contemporary marriage. Brilliant, witty stuff; sparkling like the champagne which propels the book to its denouement.
An electronic version of this novel was provided through NetGalley in return for an honest review.… (altro)
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- Utenti
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- Voto
- 3.4
- Recensioni
- 53
- ISBN
- 74
- Lingue
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