Lauren Groff
© Eli Sinkus
Lauren Groff is the author of seven books, most recently The Vaster Wilds, Matrix, and Florida. She lives in Gainesville, Florida.
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© Eli Sinkus
Lauren Groff is the author of seven books, most recently The Vaster Wilds, Matrix, and Florida. She lives in Gainesville, Florida.
Rhine Journey is graceful, economical, and emotionally acute, but, to me, the most astonishing aspect of this novel is the precision with which Schlee replicates the customs, language, and atmosphere of 1851, hewing so closely to the feeling that a book written in the early Victorian era stirs in the reader that, upon learning that Rhine Journey was only first published in 1980, I did a double take.
Ann Schlee
Foreword by Lauren Groff
On a Victorian pleasure cruise, a chance encounter opens the floodgates to desire, regret, and possibility in this “little period gem of feeling and clarity” (The Guardian), which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.