Lauren Groff is the New York Times bestselling author of three novels, The Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia, and Fates and Furies, and two short story collections, Florida and Delicate Edible Birds. She has won the PEN/O. Henry Award and The Story Prize, been a two-time finalist for the National Book Award and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her work has been featured in The New Yorker, along with several Best American Short Stories anthologies, and she was named one of Granta's 2017 Best Young American Novelists. She lives in Gainesville, Florida, with her husband and sons.
“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)
“One of the pleasures of reading Ms. Groff is her sheer
unpredictability: She can inject her narrator’s voice at any time,
turn a sentence into a small hurricane.” —The New York
Times
“Even from her impossibly high starting point, Lauren Groff just
keeps getting better and better. Fates and Furies is a
clear-the-ground triumph.” —Ron Charles, The Washington
Post
“Thrillingly good—precise, lyrical, rich, both worldly and epically
transfiguring… Groff is an original writer, whose books are
daringly nonconformist… The prose is not only beautiful and
vigorously alert; it insists on its own heroic registration, and
lifts this story of a modern marriage out of the mundane.” —James
Wood, The New Yorker
“Lauren Groff rips at the seams of an outwardly perfect marriage in
her enchanting novel Fates and Furies.” —Vanity Fair
“[Fates and Furies] is a stunning 360-degree view of a complex
relationship… There’s almost nothing that [Groff is] not interested
in and her skill set is breathtaking…It’s an incredibly ambitious
work, she writes like her hands are on fire.” —Richard Russo, NPR's
Morning Edition
“We can’t help but be fascinated by the possibility of what goes on
behind closed doors—especially if there’s a glam, madly-in-love
couple on the other side. Meet Mathilde and Lotto. Groff’s novel
unfolds in a he said/she said gutting drama that you won’t be able
to resist.” – Marie Claire
“Sentence by sentence, this novel, like [Groff’s] others, is a
thoroughbred. Measured by its narrative tricks, however, it is a
Trojan horse. Groff’s story of a marriage in which neither partner
truly understands the other uses a sophisticated technique to tell
its simple story, subverting our expectations with a two-voice
counterpoint as meaningful as it is dazzling.” —TIME
“[This] story is a storm you hope won’t blow over: surprising,
wild, with pockets of calm that build anticipation for the next
squall… Groff scours her characters, laying them bare so questions
of likability are moot. If, in the end, everyone is flawed,
everyone also attains a kind of nobility.” —O, The Oprah
Magazine
“The book is a master class in best lines…It's that good. That
beautiful. Occasionally, that stunning.” —NPR.org
“The Florida author’s third novel is billed as her most ambitious
yet, filled with sex, rage and revenge.” —The Wall Street
Journal
“Audacious and gorgeous …. The result is not only deliciously
voyeuristic but also wise on the simultaneous comforts and
indignities of romantic partnership.” —LA Times
“[A] rich, tricky novel… Groff is a fantastically vivid writer…
it’s hard to stop reading.” —Entertainment Weekly
“A recounting of a 25-year marriage looks way different when told
from both sides of the bed.” —Cosmopolitan
“A playful and riveting read that questions whether love can be
true when it’s wrapped in falsehoods.” —People
“Renders majestic even the most familiar moments of everyday
life… Groff’s writing is striking and revelatory.” —USA
Today
“[Groff has the] ability to write dazzlingly about sexual matters."
—Vogue
“A delirious, exhilarating and heartbreaking ride through the
decades of one fable-like marriage ... The author demands the
reader to participate, to engage deeply in order to take in all of
the mysteries, flaws and triumphs of this one relationship. Read
it, relish it and be sad when the ride is over.” —San
Francisco Chronicle
“Groff breaks the novel form open at the seams… What's different
and remarkable about Groff's third novel can be summarized in two
little words: the writing. Groff is a prose virtuoso, and
in Fates and Furies she offers up her writerly gifts in all
their glory.” —The Chicago Tribune
“Groff’s command of allusions, imagery, and the puzzle pieces of
her characters and plot thrill. So do her words, phrases, and
sentences, which bubble up like poetry.” —The Boston Globe
“[Fates and Furies] is capacious, messy, and bold… Groff’s hard,
realist vision of marriage — not the fairy-tale voices of the fates
that embroider it — gives her novel its considerable
force.” —LA Review of Books
“Groff’s novel keenly probes the different ways that men’s and
women’s creativity and human value are assessed.” —The
Guardian
“Watching a relationship from its inception to its quiet demise is
a perverse pleasure… . Lifting the curtain on the front of a
perfect marriage and finding a messy pile of emotions heaped on
infidelities is strangely satisfying; reading about the nasty bits
in prose as elegant and cutting as Groff’s is icing on the cake.”
—Gawker
“Groff’s boldness pays off... the title evokes images of Greek
mythology in all its vicious glory as Groff examines a marriage by
dosing it with epic overtones and filling it with the sort of
themes the gods themselves would appreciate: jealousy; betrayal;
art; death; love; revenge.” —Miami Herald
“For all the homage Groff pays to the comforting rituals comprising
a marriage, her novel is also attuned to how little we'll ever
know, even of those we know best. Fates and Furies will induce such
reflection. Involving the bed you've made. The loved ones you've
made it with. And whether you're living your life there or just
sleeping it away.” —Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
“Fates and Furies is wholly complex, dramatic, and riveting –
an exploration of love, betrayal, perception, and the destructive
power of secrets. Groff’s novel’s crackling energy makes it the
perfect read for fall.” —Buzzfeed
“Each page contains sumptuous pieces of imagery.... Fates and
Furies, too, begins as a fist, its secrets clenched in its
grasp. Once it is pried open, the secrets release like a magician’s
doves.” —Electric Literature
“With Fates and Furies Lauren Groff goes many levels below the
surface of a marriage, into a place that is perhaps as hard to
reach as it is to describe, but Groff, a bold and marvelous writer,
is able to do both. Because she's so vitally talented line
for line and passage for passage, and because her ideas about the
ways in which two people can live together and live inside each
other, or fall away from each other, or betray each other, feel
foundationally sound and true, Fates and Furies becomes a book to
submit to, and be knocked out by, as I certainly was.” —Meg
Wolitzer, New York Times-bestselling author of The
Interestings
“Fates and Furies is a dazzling novel, its people and its
prose wondrously alive from page one. At once intimate and
sweeping, this is the story of a marriage as parallel
myths— flaring with passion and betrayal, with redemption and
retribution, with the sort of heart-breaking, head-slapping secrets
that make you want to seek out someone else who's read it. Lauren
Groff is a powerful and graceful writer, one of the best of her
generation.” —Jess Walter, New York Times-bestselling author
of Beautiful Ruins
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