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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 Times "Fates and Furies
is a clear-the-ground triumph." -Ron Charles The Washington Post From the award-winning
New York Times-bestselling author of The Monsters of Templeton Arcadia and Florida 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.
