Synopses & Reviews
Tuck is a genius.”Los Angeles Book ReviewLily Tuck has had a wonderful and accomplished career as a National Book Award winning novelist, story writer, essayist and biographer. She is one of our most distinguished contributors to American literature. With The Double Life of Liliane, Tuck writes what may well be her crowning achievement to date, and, significantly too, her most autobiographical work. ??
As the child of a German movie producer father who lives in Italy and a beautiful, artistically talented mother who resides in New York, Lilianes life is divided between those two very different worlds. A shy and observant only child with a vivid imagination, Liliane uncovers the stories of family members as diverse as Moses Mendelssohn, Mary Queen of Scots and an early Mexican adventurer, and pieces together their vivid histories, through both World Wars and across continents. ?
What unfolds is an astonishing and riveting metanarrative: an exploration of self, humanity, and family in the manner of W.G. Sebald and Karl Ove Knausgaard. Told with Tucks inimitable elegance and peppered with documents, photos, and a rich and varied array of characters, The Double Life of Liliane is an intimate and poignant coming of age portrait of the writer as a young woman.
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"A brilliant blend of fact and fiction. An entirely engrossing and charming novel that draws upon Lily Tucks amazing personal history. A triumph of artistry and storytelling."Diane Johnson
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Praise for THE DOUBLE LIFE OF LILIANE"Playful, buoyant prose and poignant scenes...that quicken the heart...In Tucks prose... lively, dizzy, happyone gets a contagious sense of fun that she has transmuting life into words."Publishers Weekly (starred, boxed review)
Special, provocative, unusual.”Booklist (starred review)
Beautiful and wildly intelligent.”Margot Livesey
With fierce elegance, Lily Tuck boldly dismantles genre boundaries while weaving a seamless narrative from the fragments of her early life. Tuck crosses her physical terrain with candor and psychological acuity. Fact, fiction, memoir, novel, prose, poetry I've never read anything like it. An achingly intelligent work that is, in the words of Liliane's professor Paul de Man, an act of self-restoration.”Jamie Quatro
A triumph of artistry and storytelling. An entirely engrossing novel that draws upon Lily Tucks amazing personal history. A brilliant blend of fact and fiction.”Diane Johnson
About the Author
Lily Tuck is the author of five novels:
I Married You for Happiness;
Interviewing Matisse or the Woman Who Died Standing Up;
The Woman Who Walked on Water;
Siam, or the Woman Who Shot a Man, nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award;
The News From Paraguay, winner of the National Book Award; and the short story collection
The House at Belle Fontaine.