The Double Life of Liliane

Name: The Double Life of Liliane
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Lily Tuck
ISBN: 9781501929410

Author: Lily Tuck

Narrator: Lily Tuck

Unabridged: 7 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 07/29/2016

Categories: Fiction, Fairy Tales & Legends

Synopsis

Lily 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.

About Lily Tuck

Lily Tuck is the author of several novels: The Double Life of Liliane; I Married You for Happiness; Interviewing Matisse or the Woman Who Died Standing Up; The Woman Who Walked on Water; Siam, or the Woman Who Shot a Man, nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award; The News From Paraguay, winner of the National Book Award; the short story collections The House at Belle Fontaine and Limbo, and Other Places I Have Lived; and the biography Woman of Rome: A Life of Elsa Morante.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Esil on September 11, 2015

As I read The Double Life of Liliane, I felt that there was something a bit cold about this book, and it felt like a missed opportunity. Author Lily Tuck has written an account of her early life. Written in the third person, it reads like a novel rather than a memoir. And the effect is a feeling of......more

Goodreads review by Annie ⚜️ on May 14, 2020

So basically her and her family are like a more European Forest Gump, in some way, shape or form connected to tons of important historical figures and events. It was, um, just unbelievable bordering on the ridiculous. I guess most of it is supposed to be true but I find it all a lot to swallow. I me......more

Goodreads review by Kathy on July 30, 2019

I have tried out some books by this author and did not finish them. This is a remarkably strange overview of her life written in part truth/part fiction that bounces globally and in and out of eras. Some of the events should wound, but one is not allowed to feel sympathy for her as it is a distant f......more

Goodreads review by Tuck on February 24, 2016

i love lily tuck for her national book award winning The News from Paraguay and this new novel is her fictionalize(?) autobiography complete with family photos and a bibliography of sorts. novel of young woman, her mother in nyc, her movie making father in rome, and her, traveling back and forth bet......more

Goodreads review by M. on January 16, 2018

Though an admiring fan of Lily Tuck I found this sophisticated literary work a bit of a bore. Instead of eagerly anticipating each day's reading I found myself controlled in the manner of studying or taking my daily dose of medicine to insure I might survive. Not the most enjoyable use of my time.......more