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    Limbo, and Other Places I Have Lived: Short Stories

    By Lily Tuck

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    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 13, 2009
    ISBN9780061748479
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    Lily Tuck

    Lily Tuck was born in Paris and is the author of three previous novels – Interviewing Matisse, The Woman Who Walked on Water and the PEN/Faulkner award finalist Siam – as well as a collection of stories, Limbo, and Other Places I Have Lived. Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker and the Paris Review. She lives in New York City.

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