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Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead

Maggie Shipstead s irresistible social satire, set on an exclusive New England island over a wedding weekend in June, provides a deliciously biting glimpse into the lives of the well-bred and ill-behaved.
Winn Van Meter is heading for his family s retreat on the pristine New England island of Waskeke. Normally a haven of calm, for the next three days this sanctuary will be overrun by tipsy revelers as Winn prepares for the marriage of his daughter Daphne to the affable young scion Greyson Duff. Winn s wife, Biddy, has planned the wedding with military precision, but arrangements are sideswept by a storm of salacious misbehavior and intractable lust: Daphne s sister, Livia, who has recently had her heart broken by Teddy Fenn, the son of her father s oldest rival, is an eager target for the seductive wiles of Greyson s best man; Winn, instead of reveling in his patriarchal duties, is tormented by his long-standing crush on Daphne s beguiling bridesmaid Agatha; and the bride and groom find themselves presiding over a spectacle of misplaced desire, marital infidelity, and monumental loss of faith in the rituals of American life.
Hilarious, keenly intelligent, and commandingly well written, Shipstead s deceptively frothy first novel is a piercing rumination on desire, on love and its obligations, and on the dangers of leading an inauthentic life, heralding the debut of an exciting new literary voice.

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Maggie Shipstead is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Astonish Me is her most recent book.

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ISBN 13 9780307599469
ISBN 10 0307599469
Title Seating Arrangements
Author Maggie Shipstead
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Knopf Publishing Group
Year published 2012-06-12
Number of pages 301
Prizes Winner of L.A. Times Book Prize (First Fiction) 2012, Winner of Dylan Thomas Prize (Literary Excellence) 2012, Commended for Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize 2012
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.