**" *Five Tuesdays in Winter* moved me, inspired me, thrilled me. It filled up every chamber of my heart. I loved this book." —Ann Patchett** **By the award-winning, *New York Times* bestselling author of *Writers & Lovers* and *Euphoria* comes a masterful new collection of short stories** Lily King, one of the most "brilliant" ( *New York Times Book Review* ), "wildly talented" ( *Chicago Tribune* ), and treasured authors of contemporary fiction, returns after her recent bestselling novels with *Five Tuesdays in Winter,* her first book of short fiction. Told in the intimate voices of complex, endearing characters, *Five Tuesdays in Winter* intriguingly subverts expectations as it explores desire, loss, jolting violence, and the inexorable tug toward love at all costs. A reclusive bookseller begins to feel the discomfort of love again. Two college roommates have a devastating middle-aged reunion. A proud old man rages powerlessly in his granddaughter's hospital room. A writer receives a visit from all the men who have tried to suppress her voice. Romantic, hopeful, brutally raw, and unsparingly honest, this wide-ranging collection of ten selected stories by one of our most accomplished chroniclers of the human heart is an exciting addition to Lily King's oeuvre of acclaimed fiction.
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**" *Five Tuesdays in Winter* moved me, inspired me, thrilled me. It filled up every chamber of my heart. I loved this book." —Ann Patchett**
**By the award-winning, *New York Times* bestselling author of *Writers & Lovers* and *Euphoria* comes a masterful new collection of short stories**
Lily King, one of the most "brilliant" ( *New York Times Book Review* ), "wildly talented" ( *Chicago Tribune* ), and treasured authors of contemporary fiction, returns after her recent bestselling novels with *Five Tuesdays in Winter,* her first book of short fiction.
Told in the intimate voices of complex, endearing characters, *Five Tuesdays in Winter* intriguingly subverts expectations as it explores desire, loss, jolting violence, and the inexorable tug toward love at all costs. A reclusive bookseller begins to feel the discomfort of love again. Two college roommates have a devastating middle-aged reunion. A proud old man rages powerlessly in his granddaughter's hospital room. A writer receives a visit from all the men who have tried to suppress her voice.
Romantic, hopeful, brutally raw, and unsparingly honest, this wide-ranging collection of ten selected stories by one of our most accomplished chroniclers of the human heart is an exciting addition to Lily King's oeuvre of acclaimed fiction.