NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDNAMED 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 … 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.
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Interesting read. Same story told through 2 flawed characters. Stories very different.
Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies explores the world of perceptions and brilliantly plays with those of the reader. It is a book that uses point of view to obscure and reveal in a tantalizing dance between a man and a woman that takes surprising turns. A thoroughly absorbing read that leaves the reader breathless and a little heartsick.
I found the two main characters so annoying by the end of the book I really didn’t care what happened to them.
Strange characters made it difficult to get involved with this story
Enjoyed the book. Was like 2 books from each characters point of view.
Behind every great man is a woman….
There are lots of surprises in the book, it is truly an original, many secrets. You may want to go back and read it again when you get the full story. The characters are not so much wonderful and they are fascinating.
Couldn’t get past 30 pages of this book. Didn’t like the characters
I didn’t like it at all. It had great reviews, but I didn’t find anything about it that made me want to finish it, so I didn’t.
Great writing!
Good book!
K
it was a nice read
Incredibly long and the plot twist was anticlimactic