A mesmerizing new novella and stories from National Book Award winner Lily Tuck
A provocative and haunting new collection from critically acclaimed writer Lily Tuck, Heathcliff Redux, A Novella and Stories explores, with cool precision, the hidden dynamics and unspoken conflicts at the heart of human relationships.
In the novella, a married woman reads Wuthering Heights at the same time that she falls under the erotic and destructive spell of her own Heathcliff. In the stories that follow, a single photograph illuminates the intricate web of connections between friends at an Italian café; a forgotten act of violence in New York's Carl Schurz Park returns to haunt the present; and a woman is prompted by a flurry of mysterious emails to recall her time as a member of the infamous Rajneesh cult.
With keen psychological insight and delicate restraint, Heathcliff Redux, A Novella and Stories pries open the desires, doubts, and secret motives of its characters and exposes their vulnerabilities to the light. Sharp and unflinching, the novella and stories together form an exquisitely crafted collection from one of our most treasured, award-winning writers.
Show moreA mesmerizing new novella and stories from National Book Award winner Lily Tuck
A provocative and haunting new collection from critically acclaimed writer Lily Tuck, Heathcliff Redux, A Novella and Stories explores, with cool precision, the hidden dynamics and unspoken conflicts at the heart of human relationships.
In the novella, a married woman reads Wuthering Heights at the same time that she falls under the erotic and destructive spell of her own Heathcliff. In the stories that follow, a single photograph illuminates the intricate web of connections between friends at an Italian café; a forgotten act of violence in New York's Carl Schurz Park returns to haunt the present; and a woman is prompted by a flurry of mysterious emails to recall her time as a member of the infamous Rajneesh cult.
With keen psychological insight and delicate restraint, Heathcliff Redux, A Novella and Stories pries open the desires, doubts, and secret motives of its characters and exposes their vulnerabilities to the light. Sharp and unflinching, the novella and stories together form an exquisitely crafted collection from one of our most treasured, award-winning writers.
Show moreLILY TUCK is the author of seven novels: Sisters; The Double Life of Liliane; I Married You for Happiness; Interviewing Matisse or the Woman Who Died Standing Up; The Woman Who Walked on Water; Siam or the Woman Who Shot a Man, nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award; The News from Paraguay, winner of the National Book Award; the short-story collections The House at Belle Fontaine and Limbo, and Other Places I Have Lived; and the biography Woman of Rome: A Life of Elsa Morante.
Praise for Heathcliff Redux
New York Times Editors' Choice
Named One of "10 Best Books to Read in 2020" by BBC
Named One of "9 Best Short-Story Collections" by New York
Magazine
"[R]emarkably arresting . . .. It's a master class in digression as
a narrative device... There's something endlessly fascinating in
the way Tuck's interest in literary relationships extends even to
the works in her own oeuvre." --New York Times Book Review
"Erotic, unforgiving, and pack a punch." --New York Magazine
"[S]ublime... With her signature unembellished prose, Tuck often
writes about women whose prospects are limited by their historical
era and choice of mate... [in] sentences stark with circumspection
and glistening with clarity." --Shelf Awareness
"Tuck reveals grace in unexpected places as she exposes the uneasy
turns and harsh truths of her characters' journeys." --Booklist
"Tuck probes the gulf between expectations and reality as well as
between outward appearances and internal disquiet in this
collection of four short stories and a novella. . . . Tuck's
restrained and elegant stories deceptively carry a deep emotional
heft." --Publishers Weekly
"Lean, intriguing, formally innovative prose . . . . National Book
Award winner Tuck turns her attention to Emily Brontë's gothic,
psychologically riveting Wuthering Heights in Heathcliff Redux, the
novella at the center of this collection.'' --Kirkus Reviews
"[P]owerful... An earlier reviewer has said that Tuck is "a genius
with moments." That's far from all she is, but yes, tons of them in
a book that weighs ounces." --Shawangunk Journal Praise for
Sisters
"Another minimalist masterpiece, a tight knot of a novel filled
with intertextual puzzles, pathos, and happy rewards."--Boston
Globe
"Elegant, raw, and powerful... Magnificent enough to be reread and
renewed."―Publishers Weekly (starred, boxed review)
"Masterfully detailed and elegant in all its parts."―Kirkus
Reviews
"Another wonderful Tuck prism."--Shelf Awareness
Praise for The Double Life of Liliane
"Intriguing and intelligent... Exciting in its sweep, ambition, and
conceptual intricacy."--Boston Globe
"Enlivening."--New Yorker
"Intriguing... intricate."--Entertainment Weekly
"A mosaic of storytelling that is both poetic and
absorbing."--NPR.com
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