Delicate Edible Birds And Other Stories Lauren Groff by Lauren Groff 9781401393175, 1401393179 instant download after payment.

From Lauren Groff, author of the critically acclaimed and bestselling first novel The Monsters of Templeton, comes Delicate Edible Birds, one of the most striking short fiction debuts in recent years

"It takes only a few pages to see that Ms Groff can write - really write."  - New York Observer

Here are nine stories of astonishing insight and variety, each revealing a resonant drama within the life of a twentieth-century American woman. In Sir Fleeting, a Midwestern farm girl on her honeymoon in Argentina falls into lifelong lust for a French playboy. In Blythe, an attorney who has become a stay-at-home mother takes a night class in poetry and meets another full-time mother, one whose charismatic brilliance changes everything. 

"Tales of ordinary transformations and everyday occurrences are made magical in a collection of nine stories by Groff... The "wild, febrile, kind, ambiguous" nature of the elements may serve to explain the power in these stories, which could have faltered in the hands of a lesser writer."  -  Kirkus Reviews

In The Wife of the Dictator, that eponymous wife (“brought back . . . from [the dictator’s] last visit to America”) grows more desperately, menacingly isolated every day. In Delicate Edible Birds, a group of war correspondents - a lone, high-spirited woman among them - falls sudden prey to a brutal farmer while fleeing Nazis in the French...