Lily King: 7 books

From the author of The Pleasing Hour: A “moving and deeply absorbing” novel of painful truths and the refuge of fiction set in a New England prep school (Newsday). A Chicago Tribune and Publishers Weekly Best Novel Fifteen years ago, English teacher Vida Avery arrived alone and pregnant...

The award-winning novel of a young American girl in France—hailed as “an impressive debut” that is “written with quiet, lyric forcefulness” (Elle). A New York Times Notable Book Young, inexperienced, and fleeing a terrible personal loss, Rosie—the new au pair to the Tivot...

A New York Times Editors’ Choice—“a gripping epic about a father and daughter that plumbs the dark side of a family riven by addiction and mental illness” (Entertainment Weekly). Gardiner Amory’s life is reeling—Nixon is being impeached, his wife is leaving him, and his worldview...

**A New York Times Bestseller Winner of the 2014 Kirkus Prize Winner of the 2014 New England Book Award for Fiction A Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award A Best Book of the Year for: New York Times Book Review, Time, NPR, Washington Post, Entertainment...

20 stories, poems, and essays by bestselling writers paired with 20 pieces by aspiring writers 40+ pages of interviews, writing prompts, and tools for classroom use THE STORY I WANT TO TELL pairs the work of 20 aspiring young writers—including immigrants from war-ravaged countries—with original...

Considerado um dos melhores romances de 2014 pelo The New York Times e pelo The Guardian, livro compõe um delicado triângulo amoroso entre antropólogos durante uma viagem à Nova Guiné Euforia conta a história da antropóloga Nell Stone, que em uma viagem pela Nova Guiné com seu marido...

I protagonisti di questo libro sono, con nomi diversi, tre personaggi fuori scala dell'antropologia novecentesca: Margaret Mead, Reo Fortune e Gregory Bateson. La scenografia sono le misere capanne dei tre sulle sponde del fiume Sepik, a Papua, quel mondo separato di acque rosa e cieli verdi che ancora...