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The Double Life of Liliane, by Lily Tuck
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“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, Liliane’s 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 Tuck’s 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.
The Double Life of Liliane, by Lily Tuck- Amazon Sales Rank: #532517 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-09-15
- Released on: 2015-09-15
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review Praise for THE DOUBLE LIFE OF LILIANE"Mixing family lore, historical events, and photographs, this autobiographical novel creates a portrait of the writer as a young woman...enlivening."—New Yorker"Compels the reader to appreciate bare-bones storytelling and minimalist scenes over warts-and-all portraiture and barnstorming set-pieces. Thoughts and deeds matter to Tuck, only the former are stunted and the latter elliptical, and it is up to us to make sense of them. “I hope my readers will read my work with imagination,” Tuck said in a recent New York Times piece. For her work to pay dividends, there is no other way to read her...Tuck expertly fuses world history and four-generation family history, fact and fiction. She utilizes photographs, letters, and poetry and engages with and reflects on war, memory, and humanity.... W.G. Sebald looms large over the page...What could have been a messy hodgepodge is instead a graceful ripple-effect, like watching a skimmed stone spawn one neat circle after another, only without any diminishment in size or force...After a fashion we stop questioning how much of what we are reading is memoir and how much of it isn’t, and simply surrender to the elegant, limpid prose of this, the most beguiling work of Lily Tuck’s career."—Malcolm Forbes, The Millions"Intriguing and intelligent...Tuck simultaneously creates a layered portrait of a family and the historical eras it lived through and questions the possibility of definitively capturing or summing up human lives...a high-wire act...exciting in its sweep, ambition, and conceptual intricacy."—Priscilla Gilman, Boston Globe"A mosaic of storytelling that is both poetic and absorbing...Tuck builds her story through compression, intensity and sometimes disorienting side trips...This recovery of fragments, for this author, involves a near alchemical process: Tuck inhabits the spacious realm of the imagination, shifting time zones and historic periods effortlessly, weaving memories and photographs, family stories and facts, as Liliane's mesmerizing portrait emerges."—Jane Ciabattari, NPR.com"An evocative blend of memoir, history and fiction...On the surface, one might expect that the book’s title refers to Liliane’s feeling of being split in two by virtue of spending two very different childhoods, one with her father in Italy and one with her mother in New York and Maine. But again, that pivotal course with Paul de Man, which culminates the book, hints at a different meaning for the title, referring to “the writing ‘I’ and the written ‘I’”. Is the writer identical to her subject? Or, by virtue of narrating her experience and everything that ripples out from it, is she creating a different version of herself? These kinds of provocative questions will preoccupy readers both while they immerse themselves in Liliane’s story and long afterwards."—Bookreporter.com"[An}exquisitely crafted narrative collage."—Jane Ciabattari, BBC.com "Ten Books to read in September""Playful, buoyant prose and poignant scenes...that quicken the heart...In Tuck’s prose—... lively, dizzy, happy—one 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 Tuck’s amazing personal history. A brilliant blend of fact and fiction.”—Diane JohnsonPraise for THE HOUSE AT BELLE FONTAINE“Evocative stories of beautiful language and masterful economy…Tuck’s unflinching eye to detail and faithful ear for dialogue bring to life the brutal, the tragic, and the melancholy.” —S. Kirk Walsh, The Boston Globe“Tuck packs a small universe and decades of emotional history into each story.”—Stephan Lee, Entertainment Weekly"Poetic and absorbing stories . . . [A] must read."—Rebecca Lee, The Daily Beast"Tuck's fundamental focus [is] on the vicissitudes of relationships between men and women—and in this she is a master."—Shelf Awareness“Compact, intense, and finely crafted.”—Publishers Weekly“Impressive work from a virtuoso.”—Kirkus ReviewsPraise for I MARRIED YOU FOR HAPPINESS"One of the most beautiful love songs in novel form you'll ever read . . . Tuck is a genius with moments . . . Her ability to capture beauty will remind readers of Margaret Yourcenar and Marguerite Duras."—Los Angeles Book Review"[A] moving narrative . . . Poetic and absorbing . . . The final passages, as dawn breaks in thie new widow's life, as re a rare and elegant affirmation of the transcendence of love."—The Daily Beast"Beautiful . . . Tuck produces spare prose that doesn't sacrifice tension or emotion in its economy. . . . An artfully crafted still life of one couple's marraige." —Boston Globe"Sweet, tender and compelling."—Chicago Tribune (Best Books of the Year)"This slim brush of a book manages to accomplish in a mere 200-plus pages what many novelists try to do in twice the verbiage. . . . Examines the disguises and surprises that energize a lasting marriage." —The Seattle Times"An elegant vigil . . . A poised, readable, immediate novel."—The Guardian"Luminous . . . Spare but deep." —NPR"A magical, truthful tale." —Huffington Post (Best Upcoming Books for Fall)"Captivating . . . Absorbing . . . Strikes a chord."—The Washington Post"Fearless and absorbing . . . What Tuck has captured so deftly is the essence of a bereaved wandering mind, with its detours and tangents. . . . Intense, brutal, and stunning." —The Portland Press Herald"The writing is lyrical and striking, vividly capturing the nature of memory and the way in which love, though never simple, is contained and proven in the small, indelible moments of our lives. . . . This slim, magnificent novel is rarefied by its heartbreaking immediacy, and the moving, aching stream of consciousness chronicles not only the psychology of shock and mourning, but also the minute-by-minute way in which Nine begins to put life as she knows it in the past tense." —BookPage“A breathlessly mannered, affecting new work . . . Small, vital snapshots make up two lives closely shared, and beautifully portrayed in this triumph of a novel."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)"A tender look at marriage, mathematics, life and death, and the intricacies of love . . . I Married You for Happiness elegiac and joyful simultaneously—a love letter to this marriage and to the idea of marriage in general." —Book Browse"Tuck's crisp writing is a joy."—Kirkus Reviews"A full and satisfying potrayal of a marriage . . . Great fodder for readers who enjoy pondering life's larger questions.”—Library Journal"Affecting, original . . . Rich in sentiment, poignancy, and honesty."—Booklist"Tuck is an elegant, spare writer who limns her characters in a few swift sentences. . . . Her ability to work mathematical concepts into a literary novel is impressive. . . . For the unmarried, I Married You for Happiness will do what great fiction does: draw you into another's life, allowing you to inhabit it vicariously, emerging with an increased understanding of something previously unknown. If you are happily married, your worst fears about your spouse predeceasing you will be miserably, brightly illuminated, the better you may see them in the harshly brilliant light of quality fiction." —PopMatters
About the Author Lily Tuck is the author of five novels, including I Married You for Happiness; Siam, a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist; The News From Paraguay, winner of the 2004 National Book Award; two collections of stories; and a biography. Her work has been translated in over a dozen languages and has appeared in The Best American Essays and The O. Henry Prize Stories.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. DOUBLE TALK By little lady blue Book blurb states: “A brilliant blend of fact and fiction.”Only if the author intended the reader not to know which is which can it be described as ‘brilliant.’It skips and jumps time and place. A bit of history and a bit of a travelogue, but ultimately not a whole lot about Liliane. If this is supposed to be even a little bit biographical it does not feel so.Photographs with no captions are not all that interesting when the reader is left to try and match them with the narrative.The writing may very well be ‘brilliant’ but one would have to have a burning desire to make sense of it all to expend the energy to ferret out the meaning.I’ll just Google Lily Tuck and save myself the headache.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful. An evocative blend of memoir, history, and fiction By Bookreporter Lily Tuck’s previous fiction, including her National Book Award-winning THE NEWS FROM PARAGUAY, has been praised for its clarity of prose, insight into characters, and elegant explorations of universal themes. She’s also written two collections of short stories as well as a biography of Elsa Morante, a significant Italian writer of the early 20th century. All these elements serve Tuck very well as she crafts her latest work, THE DOUBLE LIFE OF LILIANE, an evocative blend of memoir, history and fiction.Everything in THE DOUBLE LIFE OF LILIANE, which traces the childhood and young adulthood of its title character, leads up to the course on French poetry that Liliane takes at Harvard with the literary critic Paul de Man. Liliane is the only undergraduate in the course and one of the few women (uncoincidentally, a 2014 biography of Paul de Man was titled THE DOUBLE LIFE OF PAUL DE MAN). De Man poses a series of questions to his students: “How does one distinguish literary language from ordinary language? And when does journalism become literature and when does memoir become literary?”These questions are also at the heart of Tuck’s narrative, which seamlessly blends a literary narrative structure with a memoir-like personal narrative based on details from her own life (although recounted in the third person) and the techniques of journalism. And the whole story is told in an almost clinically dispassionate tone, more like a history book than a novel. Events in Liliane’s life --- even quite disruptive ones such as her father’s death or her mother’s overdose on sleeping pills --- are narrated matter-of-factly, interwoven with research, family history or science.The first half of the book is largely composed of meditations on the various twisted branches of Liliane’s family tree, her connections to predecessors as various as the monarch Mary Queen of Scots and the Jewish scholar Moses Mendelssohn. Liliane herself was born in the late 1930s and spent much of her childhood on the move, fleeing her childhood home in Paris at the start of World War II and finally dividing her time as a teenager between her mother and stepfather’s home in New York City and Italy, where her father was a film producer.The specter of the war and particularly of the Holocaust runs throughout THE DOUBLE LIFE OF LILIANE. References to tragedies large and small run through its pages, too, often in the form of flash-forwards to incidental characters’ tragic and often violent deaths. Although the narrator maintains a quite deliberate emotional detachment from these events, the cumulative effect is one of melancholy, of losses both distant and more closely held.On the surface, one might expect that the book’s title refers to Liliane’s feeling of being split in two by virtue of spending two very different childhoods, one with her father in Italy and one with her mother in New York and Maine. But again, that pivotal course with Paul de Man, which culminates the book, hints at a different meaning for the title, referring to “the writing ‘I’ and the written ‘I’”. Is the writer identical to her subject? Or, by virtue of narrating her experience and everything that ripples out from it, is she creating a different version of herself? These kinds of provocative questions will preoccupy readers both while they immerse themselves in Liliane’s story and long afterwards.Reviewed by Norah Piehl
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Confusing novel and autobiography? By merle This coming of age story of Liliane is entwined between the real life of Lily Tuck and the imagined life of Liliane. Traveling between her divorced parents, Liliane experiences growing up with ballet and her mother and step father, Gaby in New York and visiting her father in Rome. She travels to America on the SS Exeter and flies on the TWA L-749 Constellation, the first commercial plane to cross the Atlantic nonstop. It is an extraordinary life, told in a very unexcited voice.
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