The result is a highly distinctive novel of great vigour and boldness. Profound, surprising, propulsive, and emotionally riveting, it stirs both the mind and the heart. Now, in an appealingly unpredictable move, Lauren Groff has turned her attentions to 12th-century English nuns. 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. 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.

But it is by no means this book’s only kind of splendor.' -Janet Maslin, The New York Times'Even the most incidental details vibrate with life ï❱2 Arcadia wends a harrowing path back to a fragile, lovely place you can believe in. Groff’s prose is one of the best things about Arcadia. 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. New York Times Bestseller'Timeless and vast. And sometimes, it turns out, the key to a great marriage is not its truths but its secrets. A dazzling examination of a marriage, it is also a portrait of creative partnership written by one of the best writers of her generation.

New York Times Groff is a sensuous writer. stunningly sensual and visceral in describing behaviour straight out of a time capsule extraordinarily rich imagination, she writes about this life as if she has known it.

Fates and Furies is a literary masterpiece that defies expectation. Groff’s prose is one of the best things about Arcadia. A 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 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 The Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia, Florida and Matrix, an exhilarating novel about marriage, creativity, art, and perception.

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