Limbo, and Other Places I Have Lived: Short Stories - Softcover

Tuck, Lily

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060934859 ISBN 13: 9780060934859

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2002

Synopsis

In an elegant and penetrating first short-story collection, Limbo, and Other Places I Have Lived, Lily Tuck's characters travel to unknown, exotic places and, while there, find themselves deeply immersed in observation - of the natives, the local customs, the foreign landscape - in an effort to discern some elemental truth about who they themselves are. Instead, these women meet with disorientation, confusion; they are disappointed by the people closest to them - lovers, husbands, family members. Finally, they arrive at the sometimes heartbreaking but ultimately optimistic realization that the answers they seek lie not in other people or places but within themselves.

Limbo, and Other Places I Have Lived is a brilliant collection from a writer of exceptional poise and insight.

About this title

About the Author:

Born in Paris, LILY TUCK is the author of four previous novels: Interviewing Matisse, or the Woman Who Died Standing Up; The Woman Who Walked on Water; Siam, or the Woman Who Shot a Man, which was nominated for the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction; and The News from Paraguay, winner of theNational Book Award. She is also the author of the biography Woman of Rome: A Life of Elsa Morante. Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker and are collected in Limbo and Other Places I Have Lived. Lily Tuck divides her time between Maine and New York City.

Review:

“These are beautiful, moving stories that reverberate in the mind.” (Boston Globe)

[Lily Tuck is] an elegantly economical stylist able to evoke complex internal meltdowns with a simple stoke of the keys. (Hartford Courant)

“Elegant” (Minneapolis Star Tribune)

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0060934859
• ISBN 13: 9780060934859
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192