Sisters, Lily Tuck
Sisters, Lily Tuck
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Sisters

Author: Lily Tuck

Narrator: Gabra Zackman

Unabridged: 1 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/05/2017

Categories: Fiction, Psychological


Synopsis

Tuck's unnamed narrator lives with her new husband, his two teenagers, and the unbanishable presence of his first wife—known only as she. Obsessed with her, our narrator moves through her days presided over by the all-too-real ghost of the first marriage, fantasizing about how the first wife lives her life. Will the narrator ever equal she intellectually, or ever forget the betrayal that lies between them? And what of the secrets between her husband and she, from which the narrator is excluded? The daring and precise build up to an eerily wonderful denouement is a triumph of subtlety and surprise.

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 PattyMacDotComma on August 29, 2017

5★ “First and second wives are like sisters. —Christopher Nicholson (Winter)” [Quotation before the title page] What a delightful surprise! I don’t remember what prompted me to read this small book, but if I’d listened to it instead of reading it, it would have been like sitting next to an interesting......more

Goodreads review by Banu on February 20, 2022

kitabın adını yadırgadım önce aslında. ilk sayfadaki alıntıya, yani bir adamın birinci ve ikinci karısının kızkardeşler olduğunu söyleyen alıntıya rağmen, garip geldi. oysa lily tuck çok zor bir konuyu öylesine değiştik yerlerden ele almış ki bir süre sonra bu ifade beni rahatsız etmemeye başladı. k......more

Goodreads review by Anne on September 26, 2017

I did not get this book at all. It is a piffle, a nothing, and not stylistically impressive. I would complain that it was a waste of time, but it wasn't even that. I blew through it in no time at all. It didn't even leave me enough to complain about! Damn. I did not like this book.......more

Goodreads review by Burkem on July 09, 2024

Kısacık bir kitap Kız Kardeşler, çabucak okuyacağınızı sanıyorsunuz, çok isterseniz tek oturuşta okunur da. Bazı sayfalar sadece tek cümleden ibaret. Kitabı okumam üç günümü aldı, evet tembelim ama bu kitap kısacık olmasına rağmen çok yoğun. Kitabın epigrafından kitabın ismini de konusunu da anlıyor......more

Goodreads review by M. on March 23, 2017

[URL not allowed] The remarkable flow of this fascinating short novel is mesmerizing. A difficult proposition if forced to put it down, and rare in the book-reading business. A writer who knows words and what they do, who thinks about the many questions posed in life, and one w......more