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Picked by the Amazon editors as the #1 book of 2015: Many a therapist will tell you that honesty and transparency is the glue that keeps a relationship together. Lauren Groff cleverly turns this concept on its head in Fates and Furies, demonstrating that sometimes it’s what you don’t say—to protect your partner’s vanity, their reputation, their heart—that makes a marriage hum. (Until it doesn’t.) Broken up into two parts and numerous perspectives, this dazzlingly told tale of one such marriage introduces us to Lotto and Mathilde. The former is an out-of-work actor-turned successful playwright, although some of that success is fueled by forces his ego obscures. And then there’s his adoring and enigmatic wife, Mathilde, who we later find out is a far better actor than Lotto ever was. For all the smoke and mirrors, Groff crafts a convincing love story that packs an emotional punch, especially when certain truths are revealed. There is also something satisfying in finding out the extent to which our own perceptions are skewed as the narrative unfolds. The title Fates and Furies is a nod to Greek Tragedy, and this novel revels in the themes befitting one—passion, betrayal, vengeance, redemption...You will revel in it, too. –Erin Kodicek
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Book Description Softcover. Condition: new. Product DescriptionA FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: THE WASHINGTON POST, NPR, TIME, THE SEATTLE TIMES, MINNEAPOLIS STAR-TRIBUNE, SLATE, LIBRARY JOURNAL, KIRKUS, AND MANY MORELauren Groff is a writer of rare gifts, and Fates and Furies is an unabashedly ambitious novel that delivers - with comedy, tragedy, well-deployed erudition and unmistakable glimmers of brilliance throughout. -The New York Times Book Review (cover review)From the award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of The Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia, Florida and Matrix, an exhilarating novel about marriage, creativity, art, and perception.Fates and Furies is a literary masterpiece that defies expectation. A dazzling examination of a marriage, it is also a portrait of creative partnership written by one of the best writers of her generation.Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. And sometimes, it turns out, the key to a great marriage is not its truths but its secrets. At the core of this rich, expansive, layered novel, Lauren Groff presents the story of one such marriage over the course of twenty-four years.At age twenty-two, Lotto and Mathilde are tall, glamorous, madly in love, and destined for greatness. A decade later, their marriage is still the envy of their friends, but with an electric thrill we understand that things are even more complicated and remarkable than they have seemed. With stunning revelations and multiple threads, and in prose that is vibrantly alive and original, Groff delivers a deeply satisfying novel about love, art, creativity, and power that is unlike anything that has come before it. Profound, surprising, propulsive, and emotionally riveting, it stirs both the mind and the heart.ReviewPraise for Fates and Furies:NPR MORNING EDITION BOOK CLUB PICKLauren Groff is a writer of rare gifts, and Fates and Furies is an unabashedly ambitious novel that delivers - with comedy, tragedy, well-deployed erudition and unmistakable glimmers of brilliance throughout. -The New York Times Book Review (cover review)One of the pleasures of reading Ms. Groff is her sheer unpredictability: She can inject her narrators voice at any time, turn a sentence into a small hurricane. -The New York TimesEven from her impossibly high starting point, Lauren Groff just keeps getting better and better. Fates and Furies is a clear-the-ground triumph. -Ron Charles,The Washington PostThrillingly good-precise, lyrical, rich, both worldly and epically transfiguring Groff is an original writer, whose books are daringly nonconformist The prose is not only beautiful and vigorously alert; it insists on its own heroic registration, and lifts this story of a modern marriage out of the mundane. -James Wood, The New YorkerLauren Groff rips at the seams of an outwardly perfect marriage in her enchanting novel Fates and Furies. -Vanity Fair[Fates and Furies] is a stunning 360-degree view of a complex relationship Theres almost nothing that [Groff is] not interested in and her skill set is breathtakingIts an incredibly ambitious work, she writes like her hands are on fire. -Richard Russo, NPR's Morning EditionWe cant help but be fascinated by the possibility of what goes on behind closed doors-especially if theres a glam, madly-in-love couple on the other side. Meet Mathilde and Lotto. Groffs novel unfolds in a he said/she said gutting drama that you wont be able to resist. - Marie ClaireSentence by sentence, this novel, like [Groffs] others, is a thoroughbred. Measured by its narrative tricks, however, it is a Trojan horse. Groffs story of a marriage in which neither partner truly understands the other uses a sophisticated technique to tell its simple story, subverting our expectations with a two-voice counterpoint as meaningful as it is dazzling. -TIME[This] story is a storm you hope wont blow over: surprising, wil. Seller Inventory # DADAX1594634483
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