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Florida
By:Lauren Groff
Published on 2018-06-05 by Penguin

FINALIST FOR THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD The universally acclaimed return of the New York Times bestselling author of Fates and Furies. |Restorative fiction for these urgent times.| (The New York Times) |Outstanding.| (The Boston Globe) |Marvelous.| (The Economist) |Gorgeously weird and limber.| (The New Yorker) |Easily the year's best story collection.| (Vogue) |Groff's gifts as a writer just keep soaring higher and higher.” (NPR’s Fresh Air) Florida is a |superlative| book (Boston Globe), |frequently funny| (San Francisco Chronicle), |brooding, inventive and often moving| (NPR Fresh Air) --as Groff is recognized as |Florida's unofficial poet laureate, as Joan Didion was for California.| (Washington Post) In her thrilling new book, Lauren Groff brings the reader into a physical world that is at once domestic and wild—a place where the hazards of the natural world lie waiting to pounce, yet the greatest threats and mysteries are still of an emotional, psychological nature. A family retreat can be derailed by a prowling panther, or by a sexual secret. Among those navigating this place are a resourceful pair of abandoned sisters; a lonely boy, grown up; a restless, childless couple, a searching, homeless woman; and an unforgettable, recurring character—a steely and conflicted wife and mother. The stories in this collection span characters, towns, decades, even centuries, but Florida—its landscape, climate, history, and state of mind—becomes its gravitational center: an energy, a mood, as much as a place of residence. Groff transports the reader, then jolts us alert with a crackle of wit, a wave of sadness, a flash of cruelty, as she writes about loneliness, rage, family, and the passage of time. With shocking accuracy and effect, she pinpoints the moments and decisions and connections behind human pleasure and pain, hope and despair, love and fury—the moments that make us alive. Startling, precise, and affecting, Florida is a magnificent achievement.

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Do not you type of loathe how we have entered the decadent period of Goodreads where probably fifty per cent (or more) of the reviews published by non-teenagers and non-romancers are now actually nude and unabashed within their variously effective efforts at being arch, wry, meta, parodic, confessional, and/or snarky? Do not you kind of pine (secretly, in the marrow of one's gut's happy druthers) for the good ol'times of Goodreads (known then as GodFearingGoodlyReading.com) when all opinions were consistently plainspoke Don't you kind of loathe how we have entered the decadent phase of Goodreads where perhaps fifty percent (or more) of the evaluations published by non-teenagers and non-romancers are actually bare and unabashed inside their variously efficient attempts at being posture, wry, meta, parodic, confessional, and/or snarky? Don't you kind of maple (secretly, in the marrow of one's gut's happy druthers) for the nice ol'times of Goodreads (known then as GodFearingGoodlyReading.com) when all reviews were consistently plainspoken, simply effective, unpretentious, and -- especially else -- boring, dull, boring? Do not you sort of loathe when people say'don't you believe in this way or feel that way'in an effort to goad you both psychologically and grammatically into accepting using them? In the language of ABBA: I do, I do, I do(, I actually do, I do). Effectively, since the interwebs is really a world by which days gone by stands shoulder-to-shoulder with the current (and with fetish porn), we can review the past in their inviolable presentness anytime we wish. Or at the least till this website ultimately tanks. Contemplate (won't you?) Matt Nieberle's report on Macbeth in its entirety. I have destined it with huge string and drawn it here for your perusal. (Please recognize that several a sic are intended in the following reviews.) its really difficult and foolish! why cant we be reading like Romeo and Juliet?!?! at the very least that guide is excellent! There you have it. Refreshingly, not just a evaluation written in one of the witch's sounds or alluding to Hillary and Statement Clinton or discussing the reviewer's first period. Only a primal shout unleashed into the dark wilderness of the cosmos.Yes, Mr. Nieberle is (probably) an adolescent, but I admire his power to strongarm the temptation to be clever or ironic. (Don't you?) He speaks the native language of the idk generation with an economy and a clarity that renders his convictions much more emphatic. Here's MICHAEL's review of exactly the same play. You might'know'MICHAEL; he's the'Problems Architect'here at Goodreads. (A problematic title itself in so it implies that he designs problems... which can be the case, for several I know.) This book shouldn't be required reading... reading plays that that you don't want to see is awful. Reading a play kinda sucks to begin with, if it had been designed to be read, then it would have been a novel, not just a play. On top of that the teach had us students see the play aloud (on person for each character for a few pages). None of us had browse the play before. None of us wanted to read it (I made the mistake of taking the'easy'english class for 6 years). The teacher picked students that appeared to be they weren't paying attention. All this compounded to create me more or less hate reading classics for something like 10 years (granted macbeth alone wasn't the problem). I also hate iambic pentameter. Pure activism there. STOP the mandatory reading of plays. It's wrong, morally and academically. And it also really can fuck up your GPA. There's no wasteful extravagance in this editorial... no fanfare, no fireworks, no linked photos of half-naked, oiled-up, big-bosomed starlets, no invented dialogues between mcdougal and the review-writer. It's simple and memorable. Being required to read plays is wrong, and if you require anyone, under duress, to learn a play then you have sinned and are likely to hell, if you believe in hell. If not, you're likely to the DMV. I am also fed up with whatever you smug spelling snobs. You damnable fascists along with your new-fangled dictionaries and your fancy-schmancy spell check. Sometimes the passionate immediacy of a note overcomes its spelling limitations. Also, in this age once we are taught to respect each other's differences, it appears offensively egocentric and mean-spirited to expect others tokowtow to your petty linguistic rules. Inventive term may absolutely free itself irrespective of how you are trying for you to shackle it. That is certainly your own cue, Aubrey. 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