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Girl of the Lake, the (Paperback)
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Girl of the Lake, the (Paperback)
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Loot Price R474
Discovery Miles 4 740
You Save R60 (11%)
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Nine richly varied, often funny, always moving stories that reveal
the complex workings of the human heart. Bill Roorbach conjures
vivid characters whose layered interior worlds feel at once
familiar and extraordinary. He first made his mark as the winner of
an O. Henry Prize for the title story of Big Bend, his first
collection, which won the Flannery O'Connor Award. His new
collection, The Girl of the Lake, captures a virtuoso in his prime.
Roorbach's characters are unforgettable: among them an adventurous
boy who learns what courage really is when an aging nobleman
recounts history to him; a couple hiking through the mountains
whose vacation and relationship ends catastrophically; a teenager
being pursued by three sisters all at once; a tech genius who
exacts revenge on his wife and best friend over a stolen kiss from
years past. These moving and funny stories are as rich in scope,
emotional, and memorable as Bill Roorbach's novels. He has been
called "a kinder, gentler John Irving... a humane and entertaining
storyteller with a smooth, graceful style" (the Washington Post),
and his work has been described as "hilarious and heartbreaking,
wild and wise" (Parade magazine), all of which is evident in spades
(and also hearts, clubs, and diamonds) in every story in this
arresting new collection.
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