Background
Tuck, Lily was born in 1938 in Paris.
(A champion swimmer gives up her comfortable married life ...)
A champion swimmer gives up her comfortable married life in an exclusive suburb in Connecticut to follow a guru to India, where she immerses herself in the wisdom of the East and achieves a deepening spirituality--at a price.
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( Lily, Molly, and Inez are women of a certain age, of a ...)
Lily, Molly, and Inez are women of a certain age, of a certain bearing, of a certain class. Late one dire night, Molly telephones from Connecticut to catch Lily up with the news: Inez's corpse -- near-naked but wearing boots -- has been discovered propped up "like a broom" in a corner of her Soho loft. It is an occasion ripe for an all-night heart-to-heart conversation, bouncing deliriously from one evasion to the next -- until the pair of talk-crazy, talk-weary women have successfully diverted themselves with all the wonderfully vagrant stuff of life . . . with everything, in fact, except grief.
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( The year is l854. In Paris, Francisco Solano -- the fut...)
The year is l854. In Paris, Francisco Solano -- the future dictator of Paraguay -- begins his courtship of the young, beautiful Irish courtesan Ella Lynch with a poncho, a Paraguayan band, and ahorse named Mathilde. Ella follows Franco to Asunción and reigns there as his mistress. Isolated and estranged in this new world, she embraces her lover's ill-fated imperial dream -- one fueled by a heedless arrogance that will devastate all of Paraguay. With the urgency of the narrative, rich and intimate detail, and a wealth of skillfully layered characters, The News from Paraguay recalls the epic novels of Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa.
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( In an elegant and penetrating first short-story collect...)
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.
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Tuck, Lily was born in 1938 in Paris.
She has published four other novels, a collection of short stories, and a biography of Italian novelist Elsa Morante (see "" below). An American citizen born in Paris, Tuck now divides her time between New York City and Maine. She has also lived in Thailand and (during her childhood) Uruguay and Peru.
Tuck has stated that "living in other countries has given me a different perspective as a writer
lieutenant has heightened my sense of dislocation and rootlessness.. I think this feeling is reflected in my characters, most of them women whose lives are changed by either a physical displacement or a loss of some kind".
( In an elegant and penetrating first short-story collect...)
(A champion swimmer gives up her comfortable married life ...)
( Lily, Molly, and Inez are women of a certain age, of a ...)
( The year is l854. In Paris, Francisco Solano -- the fut...)