"His hand is growing cold, still she holds it." The tale unfolds over a single night as Nina sits at the bedside of her husband, Philip, whose sudden and unexpected death is the reason for her lonely
Tuck is a genius.”Los Angeles Book ReviewLily Tuck has had a wonderful and accomplished career as a National Book Award winning novelist, story writer, essayist and biographer. She is one of our most
Mixing family lore, historical events, and photographs, this autobiographical novel creates a portrait of the writer as a young woman...enlivening.”New YorkerA mosaic of storytelling that is both poet
The Woman Who Walked on Water is a beautifully crafted, dark fable, the story of a woman's search for meaning, from the author ofThe Double Life of Liliane.Adele leaves her comfortable life in Co
??Ice’ encompasses whole worlds, the landscape of the heart imposed upon the landscape of Antarctica.”?Kirkus ReviewsThe elegantly conceived, intimate stories of The House at Belle Fontaine span the b
“Tuck’s prose is elegant.” — New York Times Book ReviewLily Tuck’s critically-lauded, bestselling I Married You for Happiness was hailed by the Boston Globe as “an artfully crafted still life of one c
“Tuck’s prose is elegant.” — New York Times Book ReviewLily Tuck’s critically-lauded, bestselling I Married You for Happiness was hailed by the Boston Globe as “an artfully crafted still life of one c
Throughout Lily Tuck’s career, she's been praised by critics for her crisp, lean language and sensuous explorations of exotic locales and complex psychologies. From Siam to Paraguay and beyond, Tuck i
?His hand is growing cold, still she holds it,” is how this riveting, deeply moving story of a forty-three year old marriage by National Book Award winner Lily Tuck begins. Unfolding over a single ni
The year is l854. In Paris, Francisco Solano -- the future dictator of Paraguay -- begins his courtship of the young, beautiful Irish courtesan Ella Lynch with a poncho, a Paraguayan band, and ahorse named Mathilde. Ella follows Franco to Asunción and reigns there as his mistress. Isolated and estranged in this new world, she embraces her lover's ill-fated imperial dream -- one fueled by a heedless arrogance that will devastate all of Paraguay.With the urgency of the narrative, rich and intimate detail, and a wealth of skillfully layered characters, The News from Paraguay recalls the epic novels of Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa.
Lily, Molly, and Inez are women of a certain age, of a certain bearing, of a certain class. Late one dire night, Molly telephones from Connecticut to catch Lily up with the news: Inez's corpse -- near
The first biography in any language of one of the most celebrated Italian writers of the twentieth century. Born in 1912 to an unconventional family of modest means, Elsa Morante grew up with an ind
A collection of stories follows unforgettable women as they ultimately discover, amidst pain and confusion, who they really are and where they truly belong.
?Tuck packs a small universe and decades of emotional history into each story.”?Stephan Lee, Entertainment WeeklyLily Tuck’s The House at Belle Fontaine brings together ten of the award-winning author
Slender, potent, and utterly engaging, I Married You For Happiness combines marriage, mathematics, and the probability of an afterlife to create Lily Tuck's most affecting and riveting book yet. “His
