The Monsters of Templeton

The Monsters of Templeton
Author Lauren Groff
Illustrator Beth White
Country United States
Language English
Genre Drama
Published 2008 Hyperion
Media type Print (Paperback)
Pages 366
ISBN 978-1-4013-2225-0
OCLC 166372872
813/.6 22
LC Class PS3607.R6344 M66 2008

The Monsters of Templeton is a dramatic novel written by Lauren Groff. Groff was born and raised in Cooperstown, New York. The name Templeton[1] draws from the name devised for the town by James Fenimore Cooper, Cooperstown's most renowned author,[2] known for The Leatherstocking Tales.[3] Groff draws in many of the legends of Cooperstown, especially those crafted by Cooper himself,[4] and ties them together over the expanses of time, then weaves them in with fictional modern-day events. The book was released to great critical acclaim.[5][6]

Plot summary

Willie Upton returns home to Templeton for the summer from her graduate studies in archaeology with several dark secrets. Her life seemingly in shambles, she moves back in with her mother for the summer. She never knew the identity of her real father and her mother gives her the shocking revelation that her real father is alive and living in Templeton, but it is up to Willie to dig up the deep dark secrets of the small town and thus discover his identity. She excavates data from the local archives and from ancient books and letters. She gradually pieces together her family tree. While all of this is going on, Willie is concerned in the present about a possible pregnancy, about her sick friend she left back in California, about her mother's relationship with a local preacher, about her old acquaintance Zeke and of course about Glimmey, the kindly but now dead lake monster. In the end she discovers the true identity of her father and that she was closer to him than she ever could have thought.[7]

Characters

Main characters

Minor characters

Reviews

References

  1. http://external.oneonta.edu/cooper/writings/plots/walker-pioneers.html "Plots and Characters in the Fiction of James Fenimore Cooper" Warren S. Walker (Texas Tech University) The Pioneers; or, The Sources of the Susquehanna (1823)
  2. James Fenimore Cooper "The Literature Network"
  3. The Leatherstocking Tales ... In Review by Gayle Clark, Mohican Press
  4. http://external.oneonta.edu/cooper/writings/plots/walker-pioneers.html "Plots and Characters in the Fiction of James Fenimore Cooper" Warren S. Walker (Texas Tech University) The Pioneers; or, The Sources of the Susquehanna (1823)
  5. http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/reviews/2008-02-06-monsters_N.htm
  6. http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/catalog/book.htm?command=Search&db=main.txt&eqisbndata=0434017841
  7. The Monsters of Templeton, by Lauren Groff, Hyperion, New York, New York, 2008
  8. http://external.oneonta.edu/cooper/writings/plots/walker-pioneers.html "Plots and Characters in the Fiction of James Fenimore Cooper" Warren S. Walker (Texas Tech University) The Pioneers; or, The Sources of the Susquehanna (1823)
  9. The Story of Cooperstown by Ralph Birdsall Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925, New York, Copyright, 1917, by Ralph Birdsall, Project Gutenberg--Release Date: June 19, 2006, EBook #18621
  10. Book Review, New York Times, February 18, 2008
  11. Book Review, SanFrancisco Chronicle February 17, 2008
  12. Book Review, Christian Science Monitor, February 12, 2008
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