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Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease.
At first taken aback by the severity of her new life, Marie finds focus and love in collective life with her singular and mercurial sisters. In this crucible, Marie steadily supplants her desire for family, for her homeland, for the passions of her youth with something new to her: devotion to her sisters, and a conviction in her own divine visions. Marie, born the last in a long line of women warriors and crusaders, is determined to chart a bold new course for the women she now leads and protects. But in a world that is shifting and corroding in frightening ways, one that can never reconcile itself with her existence, will the sheer force of Marie's vision be bulwark enough?
Equally alive to the sacred and the profane, Matrix gathers currents of violence, sensuality, and religious ecstasy in a mesmerizing portrait of consuming passion, aberrant faith, and a woman that history moves both through and around. Lauren Groff's new novel, her first since Fates and Furies, is a defiant and timely exploration of the raw power of female creativity in a corrupted world.
Story Locale: 12th Century England and France
Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease.
At first taken aback by the severity of her new life, Marie finds focus and love in collective life with her singular and mercurial sisters. In this crucible, Marie steadily supplants her desire for family, for her homeland, for the passions of her youth with something new to her: devotion to her sisters, and a conviction in her own divine visions. Marie, born the last in a long line of women warriors and crusaders, is determined to chart a bold new course for the women she now leads and protects. But in a world that is shifting and corroding in frightening ways, one that can never reconcile itself with her existence, will the sheer force of Marie's vision be bulwark enough?
Equally alive to the sacred and the profane, Matrix gathers currents of violence, sensuality, and religious ecstasy in a mesmerizing portrait of consuming passion, aberrant faith, and a woman that history moves both through and around. Lauren Groff's new novel, her first since Fates and Furies, is a defiant and timely exploration of the raw power of female creativity in a corrupted world.
Story Locale: 12th Century England and France
ACCLAIM: Groff's is one of the most critically revered writers today. "Daringly nonconformist" (The New Yorker), "a writer of rare gifts" (NYT), who writes "like her hands are on fire" (NPR) and can "turn a sentence into a small hurricane" (NYT). And her profile has risen enormously since her last novel.
A GROUNDBREAKING WORK: Groff once again ingeniously defies expectations. She is writing about 12th century Europe while directly engaging in questions about life today, from climate change to feminism to the direction of humanity. The result is a book that connects equally with the mind and the heart.
A REMARKABLE READ: This is a short, swift, surprising, fevered read, propelled by passion, lust, risk, and obsession. (Yes, there is nun sex, as well as a romantic obsession with Eleanor of Aquitaine.)
INVESTMENT IN A SKYROCKETING CAREER: We own the rights to Lauren's next three books as well.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2021 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Romane & Erzählungen |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Buch |
| Inhalt: | Einband - fest (Hardcover) |
| ISBN-13: | 9781594634499 |
| ISBN-10: | 1594634491 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Gebunden |
| Autor: | Groff, Lauren |
| Hersteller: | Penguin Publishing Group |
| Maße: | 232 x 158 x 26 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Lauren Groff |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 07.09.2021 |
| Gewicht: | 0,458 kg |
ACCLAIM: Groff's is one of the most critically revered writers today. "Daringly nonconformist" (The New Yorker), "a writer of rare gifts" (NYT), who writes "like her hands are on fire" (NPR) and can "turn a sentence into a small hurricane" (NYT). And her profile has risen enormously since her last novel.
A GROUNDBREAKING WORK: Groff once again ingeniously defies expectations. She is writing about 12th century Europe while directly engaging in questions about life today, from climate change to feminism to the direction of humanity. The result is a book that connects equally with the mind and the heart.
A REMARKABLE READ: This is a short, swift, surprising, fevered read, propelled by passion, lust, risk, and obsession. (Yes, there is nun sex, as well as a romantic obsession with Eleanor of Aquitaine.)
INVESTMENT IN A SKYROCKETING CAREER: We own the rights to Lauren's next three books as well.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2021 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Romane & Erzählungen |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Buch |
| Inhalt: | Einband - fest (Hardcover) |
| ISBN-13: | 9781594634499 |
| ISBN-10: | 1594634491 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Gebunden |
| Autor: | Groff, Lauren |
| Hersteller: | Penguin Publishing Group |
| Maße: | 232 x 158 x 26 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Lauren Groff |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 07.09.2021 |
| Gewicht: | 0,458 kg |
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