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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)Elaborate sensual...a writer whose books are too
exotic and unusual to be missed.-The New York TimesFates and Furies is a clear-the-ground
triumph. -Ron Charles The Washington PostFrom the award-winning New York Times- bestselling
author of The Monsters of Templeton and Arcadia one of the most anticipated books of the fall:
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.From the Hardcover
edition.
