Heathcliff Redux: A Novella and Stories

By Lily Tuck

A provocative and haunting new collection from critically acclaimed writer Lily Tuck, Heathcliff Redux, A Novella and Stories explores, with cool precision, the hidden dynamics and unspoken conflicts at the heart of human relationships.









In the novella, a married woman reads Wuthering Heights at the same time that she falls under the erotic and destructive spell of her own Heathcliff. In the stories that follow, a single photograph illuminates the intricate web of connections between friends at an Italian café; a forgotten act of violence in New York’s Carl Schurz Park returns to haunt the present; and a woman is prompted by a flurry of mysterious emails to recall her time as a member of the infamous Rajneesh cult.









With keen psychological insight and delicate restraint, Heathcliff Redux, A Novella and Stories pries open the desires, doubts, and secret motives of its characters and exposes their vulnerabilities to the light. Sharp and unflinching, the novella and stories together form an exquisitely crafted collection from one of our most treasured, award-winning writers.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
• Release date: Feb 4, 2020
• ISBN: 9780802147608

Lily Tuck

Lily Tuck was born in Paris and is the author of three previous novels – Interviewing Matisse, The Woman Who Walked on Water and the PEN/Faulkner award finalist Siam – as well as a collection of stories, Limbo, and Other Places I Have Lived. Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker and the Paris Review. She lives in New York City.

Reviews for Heathcliff Redux

[lisapeet · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I didn't love this one. I see what Tuck was trying to do—the disconnect between what is felt in the crush of passion or privilege, and what is real—but it feels like she misses the mark. Possibly because with one novella and four short stories there wasn't enough room for her to really stretch, but I also feel like the title novella should have at least carried a whiff of the passion it references all over the place (passages from Wuthering Heights and its timeline of a doomed love affair), but it's more cool to the touch, whether by design or just in comparison to the Brontë.