Monsters of Templeton, The

Monsters of Templeton, The
Lauren Groff
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 480pg
2 Jul 2009 UK
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9780099515722
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'The day I returned to Templeton, steeped in disgrace, the fifty-foot corpse of a monster surfaced in Lake Glimmerglass'' So begins this spellbinding debut novel: part a contemporary story of a girl's search for her father, part historical novel, and part ghost story, at its core it is a story of how one town holds the secrets of a family. In THE MONSTERS OF TEMPLETON, Lauren Groff blazes onto the scene with a work that is a combination of brilliant storytelling, inventive writing, and huge vision. Temperamental but lovable Willie (nee Wilhelmina) Cooper arrives on the doorstep of her ancestral home in Templeton, NY'where her hippie-turned-born-again Christian mom, Vi, still lives'in the wake of a disastrous affair with her much older, married archaeology professor. That same day, the discovery of a prehistoric monster in the lake brings a feeding frenzy to the quiet, picture-perfect town her ancestors founded. Smarting from a broken heart, Willie then learns that the story her mother had always told her about her father has all been a lie. He wasn't the one-night stand Vi had led her to imagine, but someone else entirely. Someone from this very town. As Willie puts her archaeological skills to work digging for the truth about her lineage, a chorus of voices from the town's past'both sinister and disturbing'rise up around her.
"Lauren Groff's debut novel, The Monsters of Templeton, is everything a reader might have expected from this gifted writer, and more ... There are monsters, murders, bastards, and ne'er-do-wells almost without number. I was sorry to see this rich and wonderful novel come to an end, and there is no higher success than that." Stephen King "THE MONSTERS OF TEMPLETON is a bold and beautiful hybrid of a book...Lauren Groff is an exciting young novelist, 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 "Groff's delightful debut is a glorious hybrid of history and humour, with just a sprinkling of magic." Easy Living "This cracking tale, admirer Stephen King gleefully says, is full of "monsters, murders, bastards and ne'er do-wells". Yet Lauren Groff's remarkable debut is not a horror at all...as Willie slays her demons by slowly but surely excavating her family tree, the novel blossoms into a crossbreed of intimate confession, eccentric social history, origin myth and literary biography... the true 'monsters' of Templeton are its secrets." Metro "This has an opening to die for ... a riveting read" Scotland on Sunday
Lauren Groff was born in Cooperstown, New York, which is the model for Templeton, her novel's setting. She has a BA from Amherst College and an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and has won fellowships to the Vermont Studio Center and Yaddo. Groff's stories have appeared in prestigious literary publications including The Atlantic Monthly and Ploughshares. She lives in Gainesville, Florida with her husband.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780099515722
Published: 2 Jul 2009
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Windmill Books
Publisher: Cornerstone
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 480
Dewey: 813.6

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