Tuesday September 15, 2015
Signing: 5:00
Reading: 5:30
Fates and Furies $27.95
New York, NY: Riverhead (2015) As new in dust jacket.
From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Monsters of Templeton andArcadia, 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.
The Monsters of Templeton $24.95
New York, NY: Hyperion (2008)
In the wake of a disastrous affair with her older, married archeology professor at Stanford, brilliant Wilhelmina Cooper arrives back at the doorstep of her hippie mother-turned born-again-Christian??’s house in Templeton, NY, a storybook town her ancestors founded that sits on the shores of Lake Glimmerglass.& nbsp; Upon her arrival, a prehistoric monster surfaces in the lake bringing a feeding frenzy to the quiet town, and Willie learns she has a mystery father her mother kept secret Willie??’s entire life. The beautiful, broody Willie is told that the key to her biological father??’s identity lies somewhere in her family??’s history, so she buries herself in the research of her twisted family tree& nbsp; and finds more than she bargained for as a chorus of voices from the town??’s past???some sinister, all fascinating???rise up around her to tell their side of the story.& nbsp; In the end, dark secrets come to light, past and present day are blurred, and old mysteries are finally put to rest.& nbsp; A fresh, virtuoso performance that will surely place Groff among the best young writers of today.