Readers will delight in Willie’s sharp wit and Groff’s creation of an entire world, complete with a lake monster and illegitimate children. 2,834 reviews 'The day I returned to Templeton steeped in disgrace, the fifty-foot corpse of a monster surfaced in Lake Glimmerglass.The author states her wishes in the Authors Note as follows. The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff(Goodreads Author) 3.62 Groffs tale of a young woman searching for her true identity through. Groff paints a rich picture of Willie’s current predicaments and those of her ancestors. The Monsters of Templeton was the debut novel by Lauren Groff that was at its core, an ode and tribute to her hometown of Cooperstown, New York. The Monsters of Templeton Lauren Groff,, read by Nicole Roberts.
Brilliantly incorporating accounts from generations of Templetonians-as well as characters “borrowed” from the works of James Fenimore Cooper, who named an upstate New York town “Templeton” in The Pioneers With only the scantiest of clues from Vi, Willie is determined to untangle the roots of the town’s greatest families and discover her father’s identity. Vi also reveals to Willie that her father wasn’t a nameless hippie from Vi’s commune days, but a man living in Templeton. The Monsters of Templeton is an extraordinary novel by literary virtuoso Lauren Groff. In Templeton, Willie’s shocked to find that her once-bohemian mother, Vi, has found religion.
At the start of Groff’s lyrical debut, 28-year-old Wilhelmina “Willie” Upton returns to her picturesque hometown of Templeton, N.Y., after a disastrous affair with her graduate school professor during an archeological dig in Alaska. A taut and electrifying novel from celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, about one spirited girl alone in the wilderness, trying to survive A servant.
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