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Arcadia a novel

The lyrical and haunting story of a great American dream--the progress of a utopian community and its lasting impact on a gifted young man.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Groff, Lauren
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Hyperion, c2012.
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Communal living > Fiction. Hippies > Fiction. Nineteen sixties > Fiction. Homecoming > Fiction. New York (State) > Fiction. Coming-of-age fiction.
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Summary:	The lyrical and haunting story of a great American dream--the progress of a utopian community and its lasting impact on a gifted young man.
Physical Description:	291 p. ; 25 cm.
ISBN:	9781401340872 1401340873
Author Notes:	Lauren Groff graduated from Amherst College and received an MFA in fiction from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Her books include The Monsters of Templeton, Delicate Edible Birds, and Fates and Furies. Arcadia won of the Medici Book Club Prize. Her fiction has also won the Paul Bowles Prize for Fiction, the PEN/O. Henry Award, and the Pushcart Prize. Her work has appeared in numerous magazines including the New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Tin House, One Story, McSweeney's, and Ploughshares, and in the anthologies 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, and three editions of the Best American Short Stories. (Bowker Author Biography)