Lily King – författare

Omtalad amerikansk roman om en ung kvinnas sökande efter sin väg i livet  

31-åriga Casey har nyss flyttat hem till Boston, skuldsatt och med krossat hjärta. Som i en bubbla rör hon sig mellan restaurangen där hon jobbar som servitris och trädgårdsskjulet som hon kallar sitt hem. Den enda fasta punkten i hennes liv är romanen som hon skrivit på i sex år.   

Trots att de flesta av hennes vänner gett upp sina författardrömmar, fortsätter Casey kämpa med att balansera skrivandet och livet. När hon träffar både den unga konstnärssjälen Silas och den äldre författaren Oscar, befinner hon sig plötsligt i ett vägskäl mellan två helt olika relationer, och två helt olika liv. 

Skriva & älska utforskar både kvinnligt konstnärskap och det skrämmande och spännande språnget mellan slutet på en fas i livet och början på en annan.

"Efter de första sju raderna är jag fast. Det här är en oemotståndlig bok - rolig, klok, hjärtskärande och romantisk, skriven på ett språk som är en ren njutning. /.../ Insiktsfullt om konstnärskap, kärlek och vägval." - Ingalill Mosander, Aftonbladet

"Mycket fin roman om konsten att vara kvinnlig konstnär (författare), och den svåra konsten att välja rätt väg i livet!" - Femina

"Inspirerande  /.../ en smart relationsroman" - Johanna Lundin, SVT Go'kväll "Jag älskade den här boken från första stycket ... ärligt, fängslande och insiktsfullt om kreativitet och livet" - Curtis Sittenfeld

"Rent litterärt är romanen en fest med levande gestaltning när den är som bäst, psykologiskt intressanta karaktärer, spirituella dialoger, spännande miljöer, bra intrig och framåtdriv, samt framförallt en hel del underfundig komik. Betyg 5" - BTJ-häftet 9/2022, Katarina Tavakol

"Underbar, smart, innerlig" - Washington Post

Lily King är en amerikansk författare och lärare i kreativt skrivande. Skriva & älska är hennes femte roman.

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“I loved this book not just from the first chapter or the first page but from the first paragraph… The voice is just so honest and riveting and insightful about creativity and life.” —Curtis Sittenfeld

Following the breakout success of her critically acclaimed and award-winning novel Euphoria, Lily King returns with an unforgettable portrait of an artist as a young woman.

Blindsided by her mother’s sudden death and wrecked by a recent love affair, Casey Peabody has arrived in Massachusetts in the summer of 1997 without a plan. Her mail consists of wedding invitations and final notices from debt collectors. A former child golf prodigy, she now waits tables in Harvard Square and rents a tiny, moldy room at the side of a garage where she works on the novel she has been writing for six years. At thirty-one, Casey is still clutching onto something nearly all her old friends have let go of: the determination to live a creative life. When she falls for two very different men at the same time, her world fractures even more. Casey’s fight to fulfill her creative ambitions and balance the conflicting demands of art and life is challenged in ways that push her to the brink.

Writers & Lovers follows Casey―a smart and achingly vulnerable protagonist―in the last days of a long youth, a time when every element of her life comes to a crisis. Written with King’s trademark humor, heart, and intelligence, Writers & Lovers is a transfixing novel that explores the terrifying and exhilarating leap between the end of one phase of life and the beginning of another.

Award-winning Lily King’s first-ever collection of exceptional and innovative short stories

With Writers & Lovers and Euphoria, Lily King’s books catapulted onto bestseller and best-of-the-year lists across the country and established her as one of our most “brilliant” (New York Times), “wildly talented” (Chicago Tribune), and beloved authors in contemporary fiction. Now, for the first time ever, King collects ten of her finest short stories—half published in leading literary magazines and half brand new—opening fresh realms of discovery for avid and new readers alike.

Told in the intimate voices of unique and endearing characters of all ages, these tales explore desire and heartache, loss and discovery, moments of jolting violence, and the inexorable tug toward love at all costs. A bookseller’s unspoken love for his employee rises to the surface, a neglected teenage boy finds much-needed nurturing from an unlikely pair of college students hired to housesit, a girl’s loss of innocence at the hands of her employer’s son becomes a catalyst for strength and confidence, and a proud nonagenarian rages helplessly in his granddaughter’s hospital room. Romantic, hopeful, brutally raw, and unsparingly honest, some even slipping into the surreal, these stories are, above all, about King’s enduring subject of love.

Lily King’s literary mastery, her spare and stunning prose, and her gift for creating lasting and treasured characters is on full display in this curated selection of short fiction. Five Tuesdays in Winter showcases an exhilarating new form for this extraordinarily gifted author writing at the height of her career.

From Lonely Planet, the world''s leading travel guide publisher, Better Than Fiction 2, the follow-up to 2012''s Better Than Fiction, is a second serving of true travel stories told by some of the world''s best fiction writers including Dave Eggers, Jane Smiley and Karen Joy Fowler.

Varied in place, plot and voice, these are stirring and evocative pieces that all share one common characteristic-they manifest a passion for the precious gift of travel, from its unexpected but inevitably enriching lessons about other peoples and places, to the truths, sometimes uncomfortable but always enlarging, it reveals about ourselves.

By turns comic, dramatic, and moving - from Francine Prose''s confrontation of the mysteries of India to DBC Pierre''s search for Hemingway''s muse in Italy - these 30 short tales reveal the joys, perils, and surprises of travel, and that truth can often be stranger (and better) than fiction.

Whether on a plane en route to your own travel adventure, or at home settling in for a vicarious experience of world adventures, embark on this literary journey around the world and explore your passion for travel now!

Authors: Lonely Planet, Don George, Dave Eggers, Jane Smiley, Karen Joy Fowler, Stefan Merrill Block, Francine Prose, DBC Pierre, Fiona Kidman, Alexander McCall Smith, Keija Parssinen, MJ Hyland, Catherine Lacey, Rebecca Dinerstein, Lloyd Jones, Porochista Khakpour, Jack Livings, Marina Lewycka, Lydia Millet, Suzanne Joinson, Sophie Cunningham, Christina Nichol, Mandy Sayer, Steven Amsterdam, Marie-Helene Bortino, Shirley Streshinsky, Steven Hall, David Shafer, Avi Duckor-Jones, Lily King, Aliya Whitely, and Natalie Baszile

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