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Lauren Groff's debut novel...is everything a reader might have expected from this gifted writer, and more... there are monsters, murders, bastards, and ne'er-do-wells almost without number. I was sorry to see this rich and wonderful novel come to an end, and there is no higher success than that --Stephen King
Groff's delightful debut is a glorious hybrid of history and humour, with just a sprinkling of magic --Easy Living
This has an opening to die for... a riveting read -- Scotland on Sunday
a bold and beutiful hybrid of a book...Lauren Groff is an exciting young novelist, gifted with an elegant prose style and a narrative ambition as deep and as serious as the human mysteries she sets out to explore
--Lorrie Moore
Groff's delightful debut is a glorious hybrid of history and humour, with just a sprinkling of magic --Easy Living
This has an opening to die for... a riveting read -- Scotland on Sunday
a bold and beutiful hybrid of a book...Lauren Groff is an exciting young novelist, gifted with an elegant prose style and a narrative ambition as deep and as serious as the human mysteries she sets out to explore
--Lorrie Moore
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A mesmerizing tour de force that marks the debut of one of the most exciting talents in years
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A lovely satisfying mystery,
By missreader (Scotland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Monsters of Templeton (Paperback)
This is the story of Willie Upton (not Cooper, as the blurb confusingly says) and her return to her home town of Templeton, a town based on the real-life town of Cooperstown - home of the writer James Fenimore Cooper. Without giving it all away Willie returns home from San Francisco after an affair with her professor ends abruptly. Her hippy mother Vi, now a christian convert, drops a bombshell about Willie's real parentage that sparks a trek through Templeton's history all the way back to its founder Marmaduke Temple (via his writer son Jacob Franklin Temple). This is a fantastic web of storytelling from a greatly diverse cast of characters all bound by Templeton, Glimmerglass Lake and Glimmey the monster in the lake. All the characters have real substance and the story kept me gripped until the very end. The monster and the ghost are perfectly woven into the narrative so as to be believeable and not kooky. The ending is very satisfying and I was genuinely sad to have finished reading it so quickly. I will definately keep an eye out for more by this author.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A delightfully unexpected and heart-warming tale,
By A nice cup of tea and a good book (South London, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Monsters of Templeton (Paperback)
I was given a copy by a friend and initially approached it with some scepticism - monsters in lakes don't usually add up to my kind of book. But it's a delight - witty, involving and surprising by turn - with strong likeable characters and a vividly evoked sense of place. All in all a most lovely book, one that will warm your cockles. As long as you can cope with a monster or two - oh yes, and a ghost.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Vivid & Lovely,
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This review is from: The Monsters of Templeton (Paperback)
This one reeled me in, I must say, by the promise of a mustery and a lake monster... And allthough the lake monster part was alittle dissapointing, the story is not...
A great tale about discovering your past, your ancestors and all their dirty little secrets... Everyone that grew up in a small town knows how extremely important is is to get away, to get out... yet many return in adult life remembering as a bliss to live there. This is what our heroine does, returning home to her funny, strange mother when she is in need of some quiet time away from life, away from it all. Finding a town she remembers well from childhood, alittle changed over the years, but not entirely. Willie has messed up! A disasterious affair with her much older professor leaves her alone, pregnant and utterly heartbroken. She returns home in shame, to get some comfort by her strange hippie mother, only to find her mother has seen Jesus in her older days and not at all in any way feeling sorry for her daughter or the mess she has made. She kicks her back into gear by adding another giant disturbance to Willies allready messed up life... a disturbance that might just be the saviour after all... A lovely story that goes back and forth in the history of a strange and wonderful family... Loved it!!! Really did... and I loved the descrpition of the town itself, which REALLY plays the main character!
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