That Groff is pursuing a psychogeography of Florida, exploring both a state in the union and a state of mind, is made clear by her insistent figuring of the subconscious. The book is approximately thirty per cent underwater, and it is full of descents.
The New York Times-bestselling author of Fates and Furies returns, bringing 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.
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Average Rating:
3.8 rating based on 33,340 ratings (all editions)
ISBN-10: 1594634513
ISBN-13: 9781594634512
Goodreads: 36098092
Author(s): Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 6/5/2018
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.
3.8 rating based on 33,340 ratings (all editions)
ISBN-10: 1594634513
ISBN-13: 9781594634512
Goodreads: 36098092
Author(s): Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 6/5/2018
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.
