Ebook {Epub PDF} The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff

'The Monsters of Templeton' is the story of Wilhelmina 'Willie' Upton (not Cooper as it says in the synopsis) who returns to her home town of Templeton, where her mother, Vivienne lives. Vivienne and Willie's family history is a big part of Templeton/5(). The Monsters of Templeton was the debut novel by Lauren Groff that was at its core, an ode and tribute to her hometown of Cooperstown, New York. The author states her /5. In her debut novel, Lauren Groff tells the story of Willie Upton, a twenty-eight-year-old graduate student who returns brokenhearted to her ancestral home in fictional Templeton, New York, after her world crumbles under her feet. Equal parts contemporary novel, historical fiction, and ghost story, The Monsters of Templeton plays with elements as diverse as the relationships between mothers and .

Title: The Monsters of Templeton Author: Lauren Groff Genre: Fiction Year: Acquired: Library Rating: Two Sentence Summary: A small town's wayward daughter returns home in disgrace, only to discover the story she's always been told about her absent father is a www.doorway.ru she digs into her hometown's past, the young woman uncovers many dark secrets.. Two Sentence Review: I thought The. Lauren Groff is the author of four novels: MATRIX, forthcoming in September , and the National Book Award Finalist and winner of the American Booksellers Association's Fiction prize, FATES AND FURIES; as well as ARCADIA and THE MONSTERS OF TEMPLETON. Lauren Groff graduated from Amherst College and received an MFA in fiction from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Her books include The Monsters of Templeton, Delicate Edible Birds, and Fates and Furies. Arcadia won of the Medici Book Club Prize.

The Monsters of Templeton. The Monsters of Templeton is a bold and beautiful hybrid of a book. Lauren Groff is gifted with an elegant prose style and a narrative ambition as deep and as serious as the human mysteries she sets out to explore. –LORRIE MOORE author of A Gate At the Stairs. Lauren Groff is the author of The Monsters of Templeton, shortlisted for the Orange Prize for New Writers; Arcadia, a New York Times Notable Book, winner of the Medici Book Club Prize, and finalist for the L.A. Times Book Award; and Fates and Furies, a National Book Award finalist. So begins The Monsters of Templeton, a novel spanning two centuries: part a contemporary story of a girl's search for her father, part historical novel, and part ghost story. In the wake of a disastrous love affair with her older, married archaeology professor at Stanford, brilliant Wilhelmina Cooper arrives back at the doorstep of her hippie mother-turned-born-again-Christian's house in Templeton, NY, a storybook town her ancestors founded that sits on the shores of Lake Glimmerglass.