Delicate Edible Birds: And Other Stories - Hardcover

Lauren Groff's critically acclaimed The Monsters of Templeton was shortlisted for the Orange Broadband Award for New Writers 2008, and critics hailed her as an enormous talent and a writer to watch. In Delicate Edible Birds, she fulfils that promise. Delicate Edible Birds includes nine stories of vastly different styles and structures. 'L. De Bard and Aliette' recreates the tale of Abelard and Heloise in New York during the 1918 flu epidemic; 'Lucky Chow Fun' returns to Templeton, the setting of Groff's debut novel, for a contemporary account of what happens to outsiders in a small, insular town; the title story of Delicate Edible Birds is a harrowing, powerfully moving drama about a group of war correspondents, a lone woman among them, who fall prey to a frightening man in the French countryside while fleeing the Nazis. With a dazzling array of voices and settings, Delicate Edible Birds will cement Lauren Groff's reputation as one of the foremost talents of her generation.

Praise for The Monsters of Templeton, shortlisted for the Orange Broadband Award for New Writers 2008 ‘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 ‘The Monsters of Templeton is everything a reader might have expected from this gifted writer and more... I was sorry to see this rich and wonderful novel come to an end, and there is no higher success than that.’ Stephen King ‘A vibrant patchwork of fact, fiction and myth...Beautifully rendered’ Daily Mail ‘A pleasurably surreal cross between The Stone Diaries and Kind Hearts and Coronets’ Guardian ‘Ingeniously structured and delivered with verve’ Mail on Sunday ‘Has an opening to die for...A gothic...riveting read’ Scotland on Sunday