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
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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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- Popolarità
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- Voto
- 3.4
- Recensioni
- 52
- ISBN
- 74
- Lingue
- 4
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)