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Five Tuesdays in Winter: Stories

Five Tuesdays in Winter: Stories

Current price: $29.95
Publication Date: November 9th, 2021
Publisher:
Blackstone Publishing
ISBN:
9781094059334
Pages:
0

I was hooked from the first delightful and strange story in this new collection by the brilliant Lily King. Her focus is razor sharp and her storytelling pierces the heart. A great follow up to Writers & Lovers.

Jamie Southern, Bookmarks, Winston-Salem, NC
November 2021 Indie Next List

Incredible collection of short stories, threaded together by characters who display tremendous vulnerability. Almost every story contains a plot twist (my jaw hit the floor after the first). I cannot wait to put this in others’ hands.

Alissa Redmond, South Main Book Company, Salisbury, NC
Spring 2023 Reading Group Indie Next List

Description

Award-winning Lily King's first-ever collection of exceptional and innovative short stories

With Writers & Lovers and Euphoria, Lily King's books catapulted onto bestseller and best-of-the-year lists across the country and established her as one of our most brilliant (New York Times), wildly talented (Chicago Tribune), and beloved authors in contemporary fiction. Now, for the first time ever, King collects ten of her finest short stories--half published in leading literary magazines and half brand new--opening fresh realms of discovery for avid and new readers alike.

Told in the intimate voices of unique and endearing characters of all ages, these tales explore 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 is 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.