I had to put the book down because it just made me feel icky. Lotto beds hundreds of women in college and there’s just a lot of crudeness and vulgarity along those lines. In that, there were about 10 uses of strong language, a brief scene of molestation by an adult teacher on a teen, and lots of references to sex. As much as the critics have hyped this novel, I couldn’t get past the beginning 60 pages.
He discovered theater and found it to be his calling, but an acting career eluded him.īut a decade into his post-college, married life Lotto finds success as a playwright, and he and Mathilde are the envy of friends.Īnd that’s all I care to know. He was angry at his mother for sending him to a boarding school and for retreating into her chosen tiny home on the beach in Florida, but his college years were good. In many ways, Lotto has led a good life - he had loving parents, until his father died when he was a young teen his family had money. Profound, surprising, propulsive, and emotionally riveting, it stirs both the mind and the heart.Lotto and Mathilde meet briefly at college and get married on the spur of the moment. 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. 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.
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. Fates and Furies is a literary masterpiece that defies expectation. 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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