{"title":"Contemporary","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"florida","title":"Florida","description":"\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" style=\"padding-bottom: 24px;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWINNER OF THE STORY PRIZE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe universally-acclaimed return of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e bestselling author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eFates and Furies, Matrix, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eand \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Vaster Wilds\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eIn Lauren Groff’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eFlorida\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ethe hot sun shines, but a wild darkness lurks. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eFlorida\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e is a \"superlative\" book (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e), \"gorgeously weird and limber\" (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e), \"frequently funny\" (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e), \"brooding, inventive and often moving\" (NPR Fresh Air) -- as Groff is recognized as \"Florida's unofficial poet laureate, as Joan Didion was for California.\" (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e) \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\"Groff's gifts as a writer just keep soaring higher and higher.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e– NPR’s Fresh Air\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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. 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With stunning revelations and multiple threads, and in prose that is vibrantly alive and original, Groff delivers a deeply satisfying novel about love, art, creativity, and power that is unlike anything that has come before it. 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But it is by no means this book's only kind of splendor.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e---Janet Maslin, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Even the most incidental details vibrate with life \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eArcadia\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e wends a harrowing path back to a fragile, lovely place you can believe in.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e---Ron Charles, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the fields of western New York State in the 1970s, a few dozen idealists set out to live off the land, founding a commune centered on the grounds of a decaying mansion called Arcadia House. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eArcadia\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e follows this romantic utopian dream from its hopeful start through its heyday. 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Read together, they hum in exhilarating resonance. Ranging from the 1950s to the present day and moving across age, class, and region -- from New England to Florida to California -- these nine stories reflect and expand upon a shared theme: the ceaseless battle between humans’ dark and light angels.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In every human there is both an animal and a god wrestling unto death,“ one character tells us. Among those we see caught in this match are a young woman suddenly responsible for her disabled sibling, a hot-tempered high school swimmer in need of an adult, a mother blinded by the loss of her family, and a banking scion endowed with a different kind of inheritance. 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An English soldier, destined for glory, abandons the battlefields of the New World to devote himself to growing apples. A pair of spinster twins navigate war and famine, envy and desire. A crime reporter unearths an ancient mass grave—only to discover that the earth refuse to give up their secrets. A lovelorn painter, a sinister con man, a stalking panther, a lusty beetle: As the inhabitants confront the wonder and mystery around them, they begin to realize that the dark, raucous, beautiful past is very much alive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis magisterial and highly inventive novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Daniel Mason brims with love and madness, humor and hope. Following the cycles of history, nature, and even language,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e North Woods\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e shows the myriad, magical ways in which we’re connected to our environment, to history, and to one another. 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