Matrix by Lauren Groff
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2022 JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE
FINALIST FOR THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION
One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2021
Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, NPR, The Financial Times, Good Housekeeping, Esquire, Vulture, Marie Claire, Vox, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today and more!
"A relentless exhibition of Groff's freakish talent. In just over 250 pages, she gives us a character study to rival Hilary Mantel's Thomas Cromwell ." - USA Today
"An electric reimagining . . . feminist, sensual . . . unforgettable." - O, The Oprah Magazine
"Thrilling and heartbreaking." -Time Magazine
"[A] page-by-page pleasure as we soar with her." -New York Times
One of our best American writers, and author of Fates and Furies, The Vaster Wilds, and Brawler, Lauren Groff returns with this exhilarating and groundbreaking novel
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.
The Monsters of Templeton, written by Lauren Groff, was a finalist for the Orange Award for New Writers. Her short tales have appeared in a number of magazines, including the Atlantic, Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, and Five Points, as well as the anthologies Pushcart Prize XXXII, The Best American Short Stories 2007, and Best New American Voices 2008. She is a resident of Gainesville, Florida.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781594634499 |
| ISBN 10 | 1594634491 |
| Title | Matrix |
| Author | Lauren Groff |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2021-09-07 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Prizes | Long-listed for National Book Award 2021 |
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