Fates and Furies
Books | Fiction / Literary
3.5
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Lauren Groff
A FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDONE OF THE ATLANTIC’S GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS OF THE PAST 100 YEARSNEW 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 MORE“Lauren 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 Florida, Matrix, and the highly-anticipated The Vaster Wilds: 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.
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Author
Lauren Groff
Pages
368
Publisher
Penguin
Published Date
2015-09-15
ISBN
0698405129 9780698405127
Ratings
Google: 4
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Ty
"This one wasn't living up to my expectations during the Fates section, but the Furies delivered!"
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Lauren
"Oh, this book. It's one I thought I was going to hate, but I ended up really enjoying. <br/><br/>The chapters written as play scripts were a bit hard to read, but other than that, the plot was mostly character driven, and what characters they are! Love is complex, messy, and sometimes looks a lot more like hate than the saccharine Disney clad commercialized ideal of romance. I really enjoyed both perspectives-a friend, who saw I was reading it, told me her book club hated one of the main characters, and I was pretty sure I knew which. <br/><br/>But good god, the female characters in this contain multitudes, the males dive deep into love and emotion and fame and lust and wanting and the amount of surprises at the end made my head spin. Truth and perception are constantly courted, and it hit home just how much of our relationships we assume. We create our own realities, nail biters and all.<br/><br/>Good book! You may hate it-but hating it means that she's evoking a passion about it, right?"