The Monsters of Templeton was the debut novel by Lauren Groff that was at its core, an ode and tribute to her hometown of Cooperstown, New York. The /5. The Monsters of Templeton is a novel by the American author Lauren Groff, who takes autobiographical aspects of her own life and family and weaves them into a genre-busting tale that combines historical fiction, gothic horror, and domestic drama. Most reviews and summaries of The Monsters of Templeton simply reprint the first line of the novel because, well, it’s a doozy of a first . Though Groff's preface to The Monsters of Templeton clearly defines her book as a work of fiction, she also admits that it is a love story of sorts for her childhood hometown ofCooperstown, New www.doorway.rustown, a village in Otsego County, has several claims to fame, the most prominent of which is theNational Baseball Hall of www.doorway.ru , the seven-man Mills Commission chose Cooperstown .
A captivating book. I love when life and books intersect in unexpected ways. When I first started listening to the audiobook version of The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff, I happened to be driving alongside the Susqehanna River just as there was a mention of this same river and the surrounding land in the book. Homesickness has its benefits. Lauren Groff's first novel, "The Monsters of Templeton," had its origin during a winter when she found herself far from her hometown, Cooperstown, N.Y. In The Pioneers, James Fenimore Cooper rechristened his (and Groff's) hometown as Templeton; she not only adopts the name, but grafts her protagonist onto the family tree of a character from the novel, Judge Marmaduke Temple. Grad student Willie Upton slinks back into Templeton in the summer of just as the corpse of a mysterious, foot.
So begins The Monsters of Templeton, a novel spanning two centuries: part a contemporary story of a girl's search for her father, part historical novel, and part ghost story. In the wake of a disastrous love affair with her older, married archaeology professor at Stanford, brilliant Wilhelmina Cooper arrives back at the doorstep of her hippie mother-turned-born-again-Christian's house in Templeton, NY, a storybook town her ancestors founded that sits on the shores of Lake Glimmerglass. What an amazing, creative and outright original book! (And it was Lauren Groff's first novel, too.) This is a two-dimensional story; one part takes place in the present day, while the other takes place some years ago. Lauren Groff is the author of The Monsters of Templeton, shortlisted for the Orange Prize for New Writers; Arcadia, a New York Times Notable Book, winner of the Medici Book Club Prize, and finalist for the L.A. Times Book Award; and Fates and Furies, a National Book Award finalist.
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