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Lily Tuck


Born
in France
October 10, 1938


Lily Tuck is an American novelist and short story writer whose novel The News from Paraguay won the 2004 National Book Award for Fiction. Her novel Siam was nominated for the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. She has published four other novels, a collection of short stories, and a biography of Italian novelist Elsa Morante (see "Works" below).
An American citizen born in Paris, Tuck now divides her time between New York City and Maine; she has also lived in Thailand and (during her childhood) Uruguay and Peru. Tuck has stated that "living in other countries has given me a different perspective as a writer. It has heightened my sense of dislocation and rootlessness. ... I think this feeling is reflected in my characters, most of them wome ...more

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The News from Paraguay
3.06 avg rating — 2,458 ratings — published 2004
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The Rest Is Memory
3.95 avg rating — 1,612 ratings — published 2024 — 6 editions
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I Married You for Happiness
3.27 avg rating — 1,726 ratings — published 2011 — 34 editions
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Sisters
3.26 avg rating — 1,598 ratings — published 2017 — 14 editions
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The Double Life of Liliane
3.10 avg rating — 336 ratings — published 2015 — 9 editions
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The House at Belle Fontaine
3.36 avg rating — 276 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions
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Siam, or The Woman Who Shot...
3.06 avg rating — 286 ratings — published 1999 — 10 editions
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Heathcliff Redux: A Novella...
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Woman of Rome: A Life of El...
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Limbo, and Other Places I H...
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“Surprising yourself is a big thing for me—to go somewhere that I don’t even know I’m going.”
― Lily Tuck
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“I will leave a message asking her if she will play Chopin’s Nocturne in F Sharp Major, Op. 15, No. 2 for me.”
― Lily Tuck, Sisters
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“her first day in Paris she can hardly get out of bed. When finally she does, she stands at the window and watches the cats. She does not feel depressed so much as absent. She”
― Lily Tuck, The House at Belle Fontaine
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