P&P Live! Lily King — Five Tuesdays in Winter: Stories - with Elizabeth McCracken

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Thursday, November 11, 2021 - 8:00pm

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Told in the intimate voices of unique and endearing characters of all ages, Five Tuesdays in Winter explores desire and heartache, loss and discovery, moments of jolting violence and the inexorable tug toward love at all costs. A bookseller's unspoken love for his employee rises to the surface, a neglected teenage boy finds much-needed nurturing from an unlikely pair of college students hired to housesit, a girl's loss of innocence at the hands of her employer's son becomes a catalyst for strength and confidence, and a proud nonagenarian rages helplessly in his granddaughter's hospital room. Romantic, hopeful, brutally raw, and unsparingly honest, some even slipping into the surreal, these stories are, above all, about King's enduring subject of love.

Lily King's literary mastery, her spare and stunning prose, and her gift for creating lasting and treasured characters are on full display in this curated selection of short fiction. Five Tuesdays in Winter showcases an exhilarating new form for this extraordinarily gifted author writing at the height of her career.

Elizabeth McCracken is the author of seven books, including The Souvenir Museum, Bowlaway, Thunderstruck & Other Stories (winner of the 2014 Story Prize and long-listed for the National Book Award), and The Giant’s House (a National Book Award finalist). She has served on the faculty at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and currently holds the James Michener Chair for Fiction at the University of Texas at Austin.

P&P Live!
Washington, DC 20008
Fiction & Poetry
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Offsite
Five Tuesdays in Winter By Lily King Cover Image
$27.00
ISBN: 9780802158765
Availability: Backordered
Published: Grove Press - November 9th, 2021

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