| Language | English |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 067092024X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-670-92024-2 |
| No of pages | 384 |
| Font Size | Medium |
| Book Publisher | Viking |
| Published Date | 20 Jan 2011 |
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| Language | English |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 067092024X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-670-92024-2 |
| No of pages | 384 |
| Font Size | Medium |
| Book Publisher | Viking |
| Published Date | 20 Jan 2011 |
Kim Edwards grew up in Skaneateles, New York, in the heart of the Finger Lakes region. The oldest of four children, she graduated from Colgate University and the University of Iowa, where she received an MFA in Fiction and an MA in Linguistics.
After completing her graduate work, she went with her husband to Asia, where they spent the next five years teaching, first on the rural east coast of Malaysia, then in a small city an hour south of Tokyo, and finally in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
During her time in Asia, Kim began to publish short fiction, and in 1990 her story “Sky Juice” won the Nelson Algren Award.
Her stories and essays have since appeared in a wide range of periodicals, including Ploughshares, Zoetrope, Antea us, Story, and The Paris Review.
They have won many honors, including a National Magazine Award for Excellence in Fiction and a Pushcart Prize, as well as inclusion in The Best American Short Stories.
Two of her stories have been performed at Symphony Space and broadcast on Public Radio International.
Kim has also received support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Kentucky Arts Council, among others. Her story collection The Secrets of a Fire King was short-listed for the 1998 Pen/Hemingway Award.
Penguin will reissue The Secrets of a Fire King in 2007.Kim Edwards received a Whiting Writers’ Award in 2002.
She has taught in the MFA programs at Warren Wilson and Washington University, and is currently an assistant professor at The University of Kentucky.
Her novel, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, was selected for a Barnes and Noble Discovery Award and won the Kentucky Literary Award for Fiction in 2005.
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, a #1 New York Times Best Seller in the United States, will also be published in Italy, Japan, Brazil, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Portugal, Spain, Poland, China, Taiwan, Israel, Turkey, and the United Kingdom.
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From the author of the bestselling and beloved novel The Memory Keeper's Daughter Kim Edwards, comes a mesmerizing story of startling family secrets and lies in the Sunday Times bestselling novel The Lake of Dreams The darkest secrets are the ones we hide from ourselves. . .Ten years ago, traumatized by her father's death, Lucy left her home and her country. Now, she returns to her family's rambling lakeside home to lay old ghosts to rest. Sleepless one night, Lucy makes a momentous discovery.
Locked in a moonlit window seat is a collection of family heirlooms - objects whose secrets no one was ever supposed to find. Piecing together her family's true history, she realizes that the story she has always been told was a fiction . . .Mesmerizing and haunting, The Lake of Dreams is a startling story of family secrets and lies, lost love and redemption, and of the many pieces and puzzles that make up a life.
‘An emotional novel with lyrical touches' Sunday Times’ Beautifully plotted and breathtakingly accomplished' Daily Express ‘An absorbing, perceptive and moving tale' Daily Mail ‘A powerful saga' Good Housekeeping ‘An epic of discovery and deception' She ‘A page-turner' Red Kim Edwards is the author of the bestselling The Memory Keeper's Daughter and a collection of short stories, The Secrets of a Fire King. Her honors include the Whiting Award and the Nelson Algren Award, as well as the Kentucky Literary Award, a National Magazine Award, and a grant from the Neste is Associate Professor of English at the University of Kentucky.