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Delicate Edible Birds and Other Stories
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Delicate Edible Birds and Other Stories Softcover - 2009 - 1st Edition

by Groff, Lauren

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The "New York Times"-bestselling author presents a collection of nine literary short stories. The title story is a harrowing, powerfully moving drama about a group of war correspondents who fall prey to a frightening man in the French countryside while fleeing the Nazis.

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New York: Voice / Hyperion. Fine copy. 2009. 1st. softcover. 8vo, 306 pp. .
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Details

  • Title Delicate Edible Birds and Other Stories
  • Author Groff, Lauren
  • Binding softcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1st
  • Condition Used - Fine copy
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Voice / Hyperion, New York
  • Date 2009
  • Features Dust Cover, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # BOOKS076248I
  • ISBN 9781401340865 / 1401340865
  • Weight 1.01 lbs (0.46 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.3 x 5.8 x 1.3 in (21.08 x 14.73 x 3.30 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008044002
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

From the publisher

Short stories.

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Citations

  • Booklist, 12/15/2008, Page 23
  • Entertainment Weekly, 01/30/2009, Page 105
  • Kirkus Reviews, 11/15/2008, Page 1173
  • Library Journal, 12/15/2008, Page 1222

About the author

Lauren Groff is the author of The Monsters of Templeton, shortlisted for the Orange Prize for New Writers; Arcadia, a New York Times Notable Book, winner of the Medici Book Club Prize, and finalist for the L.A. Times Book Award; and Fates and Furies, a National Book Award finalist. Her writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Tin House, One Story, McSweeney's, and Ploughshares, and in the anthologies 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, and three editions of The Best American Short Stories. She lives in Gainesville, Florida, with her husband and two sons.

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