Five Tuesdays in Winter Stories

<p>"Five Tuesdays in Winter moved me, inspired me, thrilled me. It filled up every chamber of my heart. I loved this book." --Ann Patchett</p> <p><p>By the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Writers & Lovers and <i>Euphoria </i>comes a masterful new collection of short stories</p> <p><p>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 <i>Five Tuesdays in Winter, </i>her first book of short fiction.</p> <p><p>Told in the intimate voices of complex, endearing characters, <i>Five Tuesdays in Winter </i>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.</p> <p><p>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.</p>