Author alice laplante books
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Alice LaPlante Books In Order
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| Turn of Mind | (2011) |
| A Circle of Wives | (2014) |
| Coming of Age at the End of Days | (2015) |
| Half Moon Bay | (2018) |
Award winning and best selling author Alice LaPlante has written both nonfiction and fiction. LaPlante is a teacher of creative writing at Stanford University, where she used to be a Jones Lecturer and Wallace Stegner Fellow. She also teaches at San Francisco State University in the MFA program.
“Turn of Mind” won the Wellcome Trust Book Prize for the year 2011. It is her debut novel and was released in the year 2011. Her work is from the mystery, thriller, psychological, and suspense genres.
Besides writing, she has edited best selling books for quite a few other writers of both nonfiction and fiction. She is a regular consultant on content marketing strategies for such Silicon Valley f
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Alice's bio
Alice LaPlante is an award-winning writer, editor, and teacher of writing, both fiction and nonfiction. A Wallace Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, Alice taught creative writing at both Stanford and in San Francisco State’s MFA program for more than 20 years. A NY Times bestselling author, Alice has published four novels and five non-fiction books, as well as edited best-selling books for many other writers of fiction and nonfiction. In 2023 she has two more creative writing textbooks from W.W. Norton coming out: Write Yourself Out of a Corner, 100 generative writing exercises for both poets and fiction writers, and The Lab: Adventures in Hybrid Writing, co-authored with Matthew Clark Davison. She regularly consults with Silicon Valley firms such as Google, Informatica, VMware, and Cisco on their content marknadsföring. Alice lives with her family in Mallorca, Spain.
Fiction
Turn of Mind
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Turn of Mind
A stunning first novel, both literary and thriller, about a retired orthopedic surgeon with dementia,has already received worldwide attention. With unmatched patience and a pulsating intensity, Alice LaPlante brings us deep into a brilliant woman’s deteriorating mind, where the impossibility of recognizing reality can be both a blessing and a curse. As the book opens, Dr. Jennifer White s best friend, Amanda, who lived down the block, has been killed, and four fingers surgically removed from her hand. Dr. White is the prime suspect and she herself doesn t know whether she did it. Told in White s own voice, fractured and eloquent, a picture emerges of the surprisingly intimate, complex alliance between these life long friends two proud, forceful women who were at times each other s most formidable adversaries. As the investigation into the murder deepens and White s relationships with her live in caretaker and two grown children intensify, a chilling question ling